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    Spotfire Analyst - Copy Library item ID from Library Administration contextual menu / function bar

    Having a "Copy Library Item ID" from the contextual menu (1) in the Library Administration tool would be great to get a faster way than possible now. Eventually, the possibility to add the same function in the area with the other library actions a...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    An idea to improve CustomVisualization loading performance

    So far, at least in WebPlayer, each time, when user switch back to our visualization from another page, all the HTTP content (js, css...) of the custom visual will be reloaded through GetResourceCore() API. The browser can't cache them as a normal...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 2 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...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Pivot / Un-Pivot with in-database connections

    When working with in-database connections it would be useful if it was possible to push pivot and un-pivot operations down to the database instead of requiring that data is in Spotfire memory when performing these operations.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    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

    Import Template for Data Files

    When importing many files with the same format, it would be helpful for the "Import Settings" window to have an option to apply formatting corrections to all files queued as a template. Ideally, this template could be saved. An example would be wh...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Enable pass-through authentication on web player for data sources using Windows Authentication.

    For users who are connected to a database using windows authentication, when their report is published to the server, only those with access to the data source will be able to open the report. This way, the security is only implemented on the data...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 5 Already exists

    Categoric custom color scheme import needs improvement - I need to choose the colors. And More.

    I have needed this feature for the last 10 years. When I import a set of colors that I have saved to library, there is no way to choose how the colors are mapped onto categoric values. Spotfire just takes them in order and it's always the same. Th...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add match columns dialog when replacing a single datasource within a larger joined datatable

    If you need to replace a single datasource that is joined to multiple other datasources in a data table there is no way to match your existing columns to the new datasource columns as the match column dialog is only available when there is a singl...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 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
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