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    rich HTML editor in Text Area

    It would be nice to have a rich text editor for text area, where you can easily add tables, lists, etc. without writinng too much HTML code
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration

    Infer Schema option for files on Windows

    Implement Infer Schema options when connecting to files when TDV is running in a Windows environment. File-Delimited adapter cannot infer schema when introspecting CSV files. TDV documentation says that this is possible with the Local File Storage...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 1 Unlikely to implement

    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

    Webplayer need a function to get current date based on user's location regardless of webplayer server's timezone

    As of now webplayer user gets data time functions return current date and time based on the server time where the webplayer is hosted. This causes issue if the users and webplayer server are in different time zone. For example today() function cal...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 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

    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

    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

    forward SSO from Cloud Spotfire to our TDV Server

    As per documentation https://docs.tibco.com/pub/sfire-analyst/latest/doc/html/en-US/TIB_sfire-analyst_UsersGuide/connectors/cis/cis_cisco_information_server_connection.htm using Spotfire Server it is possible to configure a common authentication d...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Propagate changes in one layer to the following layers

    If you use different layers and change the fieldname in one of the early layers, the subsequent layers need to be changed accordingly, by hand. Using the lineage information it should be possible to propagate such a change throughout the layers.
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / sql support 0 To be Reviewed

    Add ability to apply hotfixes in a serverless environment

    In the current setup, the only way to apply a hotfix to the Spotfire Analyst desktop client is by logging into a Spotfire Server instance where the hotfix is deployed and then accepting the updates. For those with a serverless Spotfire setup this ...
    11 months ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Planning to implement
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