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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...
    12 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Public API to check/uncheck the "Show notifications about mismatches" option

    When programmatically creating visualizations with two or more tables, it can be that the specified ColumnRelation(s) are enough to properly link the data but that not all columns involved in the visual are matched, i.e. the visual and tables are ...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    show more information in data loading dialog

    Currently we can get below information in data loading dialog when opening analysis or loading data, \! filetype=Spotfire.DataFormat.Text; version=2.0; \! property=Name; category=Column; type=String; \! property=DataType; category=Column; type=S...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Set the dimension to be used as a measure in the Essbase Connector

    Following this idea: https://ideas.tibco.com/ideas/TS-I-5554 It would be useful to be able to set the dimension to be used a measure, even though there is already account dimension found by Spotfire. in short, being able to define (already implem...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    can combo chart bars be stackable?

    I really need to have a stacked bar chart in the combo chart. I can increase the dimensionality of the visualization. I don't see a technical hurdle here.
    12 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    API & Examples for unit testing Spotfire extensions

    As a developer, I find very important being able to unit test the code I implement for extending the Spotfire functionality: new visualizations, tools, etc. The documentation that comes together with the SDK has good examples about the different w...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    Disable Schedule for Scheduling & Routing Files

    In "Scheduling & Routing" currently you can disable rules for files, which turns off the routing of users to a cached copy of the file. However, when troubleshooting issues with a data source, it would be helpful to be able to quickly disable ...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 0 Future Consideration

    Document property: slider controls need formatting options

    While building an analysis tool for my company I came across the need to use a number of document properties as inputs. In an effort to put some bounds on what the users could enter I decided to make these document properties as sliders, so I coul...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 2 Future Consideration

    Improve categorical coloring rules based on counts

    I don't think that Spotfire does this, and it does not look like it from my eyeballing. When determining the color mapping for a categorical column, Spotfire should first perform a count of all column values, then apply its "best" categorical colo...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to wrap x and y axis titles

    Currently, when x and y axis titles are long, it will overflow instead of wrapped. This seems to be a basic thing for most visualization but not Spotfire.
    12 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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