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    Maximize canvas programmatically

    Hi, It would be great to have a hotkey or toggle option to utilize in the Spotfire Analyst that mimics the View> Maximize Canvas feature, using an IronPython Script. The "F11" key helps entering full screen mode, however it doesn't do the same ...
    11 months ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    allow to add custom tool into native Tools menu with more than 2 hierarchy

    Our customer wants to add custom tool into native Tools menu like, native Tools menu => SubFolder(e.g company name) => SubSubFolder(e.g. tool category) => CustomTool_here Currently only below 2 option are available. (1) native Tools menu ...
    11 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    reload on-demand data incrementally

    Customer would like to be able to reload on-demand data incrementally. E.g. if condition A/B/C/D are marked and data are loaded based on that, (1) when changing marking to A/B/C/D/E, only load data E and append to current dataset (2) when removing...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Principle Component Analysis - bring it back to Spotfire

    For big data exploration in healthcare, I am using spotfire now since 2001. One of my favorite pieces of software. After uprgrading from 7.11 to Spotfire Desktop 11, Principle Component Analysis (PCA) went missing. Its a key feature in summarizing...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Already exists

    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...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 1 Unlikely to implement

    Add list-library-content as administration command

    Ability to list library content to use for CICD related tasks, this list/verify if the source/destination content/structure exists. Listing should have the same parameters like item-type in export-library-command so you can list specific items lik...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Create a searchable catalogue of Spotfire Analyses

    My thoughts on an improvement to the product would be a concept of a catalogue, where I could build an analysis and then "publish" it with a description of what it is to a catalogue. people could browse/search the catalogue find something that loo...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Library 1 Future Consideration

    Add missing risk distribution

    Create tool with automatic mechanism to choosing best risk model with visualisation all possibilities and criteria for model selection. Also please add some new distribution: Log-Gama, Log-logistic, Inverse Gaussian, Gompertz distribution.It is ve...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 Future Consideration

    Provide support for adding the datasources using ODBC

    Currently we can connect to the data sources using JDBC protocol except of Microsoft excel ODBC. We should expand this to other data sources including the custom adapter data sources so that this will give us the flexibility to connect more data s...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 1 Already exists

    Allow Admins to post in-tool messages to all connected clients.

    To provide better user engagement and more efficient use of resources, especially in light of dynamically scaling down the number of active Spotfire servers in a cloud configuration, Spotfire Admins should be able to broadcast important messages t...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration
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