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Have ideas really been "Under Consideration" for 3+ years? There should be a time limit there, and either you're going to do it and we can expect it by a certain release or its not going to happen
about 5 years ago in Spotfire 1 Will not implement

Show path for the search items like information link in information designer.

Right now when someone try to search for an information link with some part of its name like *well* on information designer it doesn't return the path, again we have to open Library admin do same thing there and find the path then come back again ...
almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 2 Future Consideration

Data Canvas UX: Column datatype formatting inside Data Canvas

See attachment The Data Canvas is a great place to manage, wrangle, cleanse, and enrich data. However, the options for formatting column data types are not found within it. You must leave the canvas and go to the Data Panel column handler then s...
about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

UX: Generally better script management (all scripts)

I know there are different places to script for different functions, but would be good to have a central place to write/manage all scripts in a document. If I am using IronPython with TERR, I have to go in-and-out of two different script handlers ...
about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 1 Future Consideration

Add option to not cache the data from a data function when saving

I frequently use Data Functions to load data from external data sources (e.g. to call RESTful APIs to extract data). The main problem I have with this approach is that the most recent data is saved inside the analysis file. This has 2 knock-on eff...
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

Support extremely wide data sets

Spotfire is excellent when working with wide datasets that can contain thousands or even tens of thousands of columns. In some situations, datasets can be extremely wide with millions of columns, which sometimes causes performance and UX issues. I...
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Add functionality in line/scatter plots to mark where various group of lines/points intersect

In many optimization problems, the goal is to find the best trade-off (cross-over) between 2 curves (e.g., cost vs. benefit). Or in quantitative technical analysis for stocks trading, crossover concept is common. Being able to visualize this cross...
about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

Overall overview of markings and Filter Settings

When taking over a report from a colleague (who has left the organisation/company) it can take quite some time to find out all filters etc that has been applied. I would be very handy to have a page that can display all filters, data limitations a...
about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 0 Future Consideration

Numeric equality issues when using a Single Real column

When doing comparisons against a single real column, the static value entered is not auto cast to a single real. This results in rather odd behavior such as the value 1.1 in a single real column != the user entered value of 1.1 If for example. I h...
about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Add ability to specify column data types when importing programmatically from Excel.

I am currently running a script which will replace data tables with excel sheets through a simple file explorer interface. However I am noticing that Spotfire is automatically guessing the data type of a column based on the first n rows of data im...
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration