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    Export "Table (Without value formatting)" option for desktop users

    Just as it says, add the same option that is available for webplayer to Spotfire desktop users. Reason: when I have a formatted number (123k, 123M), the export data will retain the format and I cannot get it changed without ruining the entire repo...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Export 0 Future Consideration

    Size by or rotate by categorical data and subsets

    Scatterplots support categorical data on both the x and the y-axis by placing the categories evenly spaced along the axis even though both are continuous by nature. It would be great if size by and rotate by worked the same way. That would make it...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Administrative control of local/server TERR

    I want to be able to administratively untick the “Use locally-installed TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R engine” tickbox in the Tools/Options/Data Functions for client installations
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 1 Future Consideration

    Library Administration should be more user-friendly

    User administration in "Folder Permission" should be more user-friendly. Troubles start when there are many users which are being added privileges: You cannot list users in alphabetical order You can add users only one by one (if you are not allo...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Library 4 Future Consideration

    pre-configure font / format of Y axis lables, format in Statistics table, for boxplot

    Please allow to pre-configure below for boxplot under Administration Manager => Preferences: BoxPlot -> BoxPlotPreferences. (1) font of Y axis lables, (2) format of Y axis lables, (3) font in Statistics table, (4) format in Statistics table,...
    11 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Tag users in Spotfire conversation feature and have the users being notified actively

    when using the Spotfire conversation feature, it would be good to be able to tag users (like @dirk) - when connected to Spotfire server, it should send out a notification to any open client (web and desktop) to the specific user. Maybe would be go...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Collaboration 1 Future Consideration

    Complete control over appearance of marker labels

    I want to have complete control over the appearance of marker labels in scatter plots. The current appearance of marker labels is primitive and inflexible. I would like to be able to - Control the border width, border style, and border color of ma...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Possibility to directly load .gz and .zip compressed input files

    Could we get the possibility to directly work with .gz and .zip compressed input files (like .csv and .txt). Most other tools can handle compressed input, but not Spotfire.
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Option to Automatically Create Table Relations for Tables from Relational Databases

    It would nice if when adding multiple tables from a relational database there was an option to automatically create the table relations in Spotfire based on the database foreign keys. This would save a lot of time and ensure that the relations rem...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    execute multiple Python/TERR data functions in parallel even all of them are from the same Analyst/WP/AS session

    We have confirmed with TIBCO support that, currently as designed/implemented how the data function services work, all data function service(Python/TERR) invocations per analysis session are serialized. Also, there is no configuration to force seri...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 1 Future Consideration
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