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    Access miniatures in text areas via the API

    Sometimes the need arises to manipulate a text area using IronPython to change specific parts of the text area. However, when changing the html content of a text area using IronPython you often destroy the Spotfire dynamic contents (calculated v...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Formating Options for Markers Fill and Outline (Colors, Transparency, Dash Type, Width)

    Dear all, There are cases were we want to format the markers of a visualization by setting the fill color white and choosing a color only for the outline of the marker. Just like we do in PowerPoint, we might also want to set the transparency, d...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    Ability to adjust width and height of a visual through API (using python)

    Our dashboards have a large number of pages. Each page has the same textarea. It would be great to be able to set the width of these through an API call. Same for panels (e.g. make all filter panels same width on each page when showing)
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Want connection capability for .asc files

    .asc files are basically csv files, but the Spotfire software cannot directly connect to these. We would find business value in being able to directly connect to these.
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    enable copy on expression fields in data canvas

    I think you are able to do this in Analyst. I needed to copy the Expression text out of the Column Properties in the Web Player data canvas, since its the only way to get to them on the WP. They are pretty gnarly. Unfortunately this is not possibl...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / User Experience 1 Needs Info

    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...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / User Experience 3 Future Consideration

    In Spotfire 14 LTS (14.0.3), actions performed by analytics tools are not tracked/logged to the actionlog database.

    In Spotfire 14 LTS (14.0.3), the "Export" operations for the following three newly added features, performed by Analysis Tools (Category: analysis_pro), are not being tracked or logged in the action log database: 1. Export "Visualization to Mic...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 0 Future Consideration

    How to automate import new tables to spotfire

    Hi Team, Currently, we are pulling tables from smartsheet to Spotfire by using query and performed some analysis, In smartsheet on a daily basis new tables will be added, so every time we have to pull the new tables from smart sheet into Spotfire....
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 2 Future Consideration

    need storage persist option for replacing data tables

    Whenever I replace a data table the storage method always resets to "always new data". Can the previous setting be preserved across replacement? It's extra step to reset to the previous setting (if I can recall what it was), and is quite annoying....
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Support AWS S3 for Spotfire library import/export path

    Currently Spotfire config tool provides only options for configuring Library import/export path for windows local folder or a file share path. Given the instances are not domain joined, can't configure a central file location for all spotfire serv...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration
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