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    Update the "Open from Library" dialog to aggregate open time and correct the problems with it.

    The file open dialog gives a readout of the steps taken with a running timer for each. Unfortunately, the data is useless. It does not aggregate the total time, and it drops values of the intermediate steps. I personally watched a file load in sev...
    11 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience 3 Future Consideration

    expose API to configure preferences for groups

    We have some Spotfire Analyst custom modules that utilize preferences to store settings, and these settings are in json format so it's difficult to modify it using text editor so we provide a custom tool to do this. To apply these settings to pref...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Bookmark saves ONLY page layout, not visualization properties

    I would like the bookmark to only save the page layout and not save the formulas, axes, colors, etc within the visualization. This way when a dashboards visualizations properties are updated by the developer, the bookmark can be updated with those...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Bookmarks 0 Future Consideration

    Move points on map with a click and drag

    Say you have a number of points on a map, in this case representing a hypothetical wellbore as an example. It would be amazing if you could click a point and move it in space. We’ve built a well planning app in spotfire and need the ability to mov...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 1 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...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Library 1 Future Consideration

    Allow "Draw as Step Lines" to be multiaxis specific

    I have several data sets that show actual data vs a model as line charts. The actual data is best represented as a continuous line while the model would be best shown as a "step line.
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add a Favourites folder and Recent Locations option to Information Designer

    THis would save a lot of time. The Information Designer doesn’t even remember where you were last, and open at that location. You have to constantly navigate from the root folder. Adding Favourites and Recent Locations would be a great help. Also,...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 2 Future Consideration

    AutoSynch Library TERR Data Function Parameters, not just scripts

    I'm able to force an auto-sync of a library function upon opening a Spotfire template. This is very useful for distributed templates among many users, as incremental changes in the function will be automatically pushed to every user. However, the ...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / Scripting 2 Future Consideration

    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...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Add support for converting/handling SQL Server DATETIMEOFFSET fields

    In the MS world, developers are frequently using the DATETIMEOFFSET type to specify a point in time at a given time zone offset. The type is common in SQL Server and C# code (probably more). Data like this ends up in SQL Server data sources. TDV d...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Likely to implement
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