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    Smart Data Source Optimizer

    In many enterprise Spotfire deployments, reports connect to wide tables or views via JDBC or Infolinks, often bringing in 50–200 columns by default—even when only a fraction of these columns are actually used in visualizations, expressions, or scr...
    9 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Alert the user that a restart is required when when changing preference

    Alert the user that a restart is required when a restart is required when changing some preference options, like tools>options...>Application>Development>show development menu
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Odata plus headers

    Some odata sources need headers in order to get accesed. Spotfire should include configuration for this kind of data sources. In our case, an authorization header must be included as a header. Spotfire does not provide a simple way to access this ...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Add JavaScript mashup APIs to interact with visuals

    I'm writing Selenium based tests and would like supported APIs for interacting with visuals on a page: Get the visualisation type. Get the title of the visual. Export table data associated with a table (assuming that it is allowed by the visual p...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add a method to the JavaScript mashup API to get the current notifications/errors

    I'm working on Selenium based tests for Spotfire reports and one of the checks I perform is that no errors are shown in the notification area. Currently, I achieve this by checking the content of the Spotfire DOM, then clicking on buttons to show ...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add methods to the JavaScript mashup API to maximize visualisations (and restore back to normal)

    I'm working on Selenium tests for our Spotfire analytics. In some cases we want to compare images captured of Spotfire visuals. Comparison of images is only possible if the images are the same size, so we ensure this by maximizing the visual befor...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    Allow descriptions to be added to prompt filters

    It would be great, if when defining prompt filters in the Information Link, if you could add text providing additional information to the users at each prompt. This could be used to describe the data point, and the impact of the choices being ma...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

    More details in action log for Information Links

    The new(ish) action logging for data connections is excellent - we can easily see from a single record what type of database was used, the specific database, how long the query took and how much data was returned. Extracting similar data for Infor...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Find out how many SBDF files are cached in the Web Player

    When you activate SBDF caching, it has a "cost" similar to scheduling Analysis. You can check the Web Player caching settings and based on the filters you can find out how many of all your SBDF files are cached, if you know where they are, in the ...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 1 Future Consideration

    Run TIBCO Cloud Spotfire in the Australia (Sidney) region

    TIBCO Cloud Spotfire in the Australia (Sidney) region allow Australian customer to run their analytic workloads in a region closer to home. Signing up for Spotfire trials and subscriptions in Australia works the same way as for other TIBCO Cloud S...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration
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