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    106 VOTE

    Search should be available in listbox property controls

    As the list box filters have the "(All)" option, the customer is using the list box property controls to work around this. The list box property control, on the other hand, does not include the search functionality which is required as they have a...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 2 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

    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

    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.
    9 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 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...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 1 Planning to implement
    100 VOTE

    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

    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...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    A way programmatically to migrate and change the types to solve the problem

    This is related to Support ticket 2559163. The exception is thrown before constructor deserialization, so the developer can't catch that exception. The fix is to throw the exception when deserializing the explicit immutable property.
    3 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 To be Reviewed

    improve button (action control) appearance

    One of our customers wants the button (action control, typically added in a text area) appearance to be improved. For this use case the button is associated to an IronPython script that could take a while to run. Regarding the behavior of the Acti...
    3 months ago in Spotfire / Text Area / User Experience 0 Future Consideration
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