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    Ability to disable storing data in the undostack to prevent continuous increase in memory consumption when data is refreshed

    Per request from the Support team (Case#02157929), I am creating this urgent feature request. The customer(s) are severely impacted by the continuous memory consumption when the open template (a dashboard) has automatic refresh every n minutes. At...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 5 Future Consideration
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    Configurable sorting in cross table headers

    Currently cross tables are presented with a default sorting, as alphanumeric ascending in precedence of column/row positions. This default can now be adjusted to sort based on the results, but not on the values in the headings themselves. Cros...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 5 Future Consideration

    Cache job auto-restart upon failure

    We would like the option to automatically reattempt a cache job when it fails. We have some public api data sources that randomly fail from time to time, and they succeed if you just restart them. It would save us time and failure alerts if they c...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching / data movement 2 Future Consideration

    Re-organize Data Canvas Data Sources

    I wish to re-organize and/or color code the Data Table order in the Data Canvas to keep related data sources visually close to each other as a project is built out.
    10 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Improve performance of query retrieving user authorization for more than 300% by removing order by statement

    We discovered a Spotfire query that retrieves user authorization, which has the highest cost and is used more than 400 times an hour on our system. It contains an "order by" statement. If this statement is removed it performs 300% faster. Although...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 7 Future Consideration

    Truncate cache buckets instead of delete

    Currently buckets have all their records deleted, and then the new records are inserted. In the database this means 2 write operations, and is a major cause of index fragmentation. Most databases allow you to truncate the table, which is only an a...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 1 Planning to implement

    Add a file adapter to connect to parquet files directly

    Extend the flat file support of the server to connect directly to parquet files to read in data.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 3 Future Consideration

    Progress Bar in Spotfire Analyst while executing Script

    We would like to have a progress bar in Spotfire Analyst to indicate that a script is currently being executed. Currently there is no way to tell natively if a script is running in the background. We would expect this to look similar to the web pl...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Administration: Export Bookmark information of analyses (private and public) with tools config.sh

    Hello, Issue : To synchronize all analyzes from Design server to Production on another server, we need for each push, clean production and import the new version of analyze. I lost the private or public Bookmarks (create on production)... I need o...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Copilot should let users upload files directly

    I would like to see that Spotfire Copilot supported that users directly upload files, which Copilot could use as context to provide better answers. Example: Upload an image of a visualization and ask Copilot to create this visualization in Spotfir...
    8 months ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration
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