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    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

    Set 'rows and columns' and 'panels' at the same time (both) in Properties > Trellis

    I want to set 'rows and columns' and 'panels' at the same time (both) in Properties > Trellis.
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 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...
    almost 7 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...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    add API to export data to csv and make the result file downloadable for consumer

    Please add API to export data(from datatable or table plot, cross table) to csv/tsv and make the result file downloadable for consumer. Current API for exporting can only write exported file to web player server's path.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Excel file(xls/xlsx,etc) Import API

    Customer wants custom tool to import multiple excel files at once. To create a tool to do this, reading excel file/sheet is required, which requires basically microsoft's office driver. On combination of 64bit OS + 32bit office driver, a 32bit pro...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add other grand total options for aggregation

    This would solve so many work arounds necessary if there was a way to take a cross table's grand total box and customize the aggregation used rather than only have Sum available. If i could select Avg to create an avg grand total it would work the...
    9 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add 'Configuring an email notification' to Spotfire Server web UI

    Configuring email & http notifications and then adding or removing notifications are currently all done through the Command Line Interface and not the Spotfire Server web portal. It would be a very helpful feature to have Spotfire Server Web U...
    9 months ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

    Export SBDF file to library for visualisations based on in-db connections

    You are not able to export data tables/ visualisations from DXP files as SBDF files that are connected to a database. Currently our DXP files are based on direct db connections. Having set up some summary tables in DXP files we would like to expor...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Export 3 Future Consideration
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