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    Information Designer: Open elements and joins in information links directly, e.g. by double-clicking

    I sometimes would like to open elements and joins which are used in an Information link. To do so, I have to look for the path and then open the element/join from the elements window on the left. This is annoying and error prone. A double click in...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

    Enable schedule updates for calculated values

    When a dashboard with a large data volume uses hundreds of calculated values, although scheduled updates is in place for it, calculated values are exempt from scheduled updates and they are computed on users' clients (Spotfire Analyst, Spotfire we...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 0 Future Consideration

    Multi-level column headers / sub-grouping

    If you have multiple columns that belong together (e.g. different readouts per assay) it would be space efficient to group them visually and just display the group name once above the others. It also gives a nice visual cue which columns belong to...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    ODBC Netezza - more SQL function please

    Hello If we create a direct query with ODBC netezza, we are really poor on function (Calculated colomns or Personnalized expression). Why can't we use SQL ANSI function working on Netezza ? Example : CURRENT_DATE is not working. A user can't creat...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 1 Future Consideration

    measure how long it takes to render a visualization

    Customer want to have the capability to measure how long it takes to render a visualization, e.g. (1) OOTB (diagnostics information, etc) (2) from log file (3) using Spotfire API (from IronPython script or C# custom module)
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Deploying a new deployment area to Spotfire client removes the older packages and modules

    Hi Developers, Switching to a new deployment area through Spotfire client startup removes the older packages (modules) and replaces them with the new packages into the Modules folder. This makes switching between versions not possible since every ...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 2 Future Consideration

    Export to PDF should support the situation where one page (tab) has multiple visualizations and another page (tab) has a table that doesn't fit on one page

    Currently this is impossible, whilst I would expect this would be basic functionality. When choosing "All pages" in the Export what setting, it is not possible to enable the "Trellis panels and table rows not visible on screen". As result the tabl...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Export 3 Already exists

    Information Designer read access

    We want Information Designer read access to enable the functionality of checking SQL queries and Data Source Name. In current scenario, users does not have access for Information Designer and Data Source. Users should be able to view the SQL queri...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 7 Future Consideration

    Allow use of the mashup JavaScript API within text areas

    Allow use of the JavaScript API from within DXP files without the need for an actual mashup. There are features such as manipulating filters and markings that would be useful from JavaScript.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Smartsheet as a data source in Spotfire

    I'd like to read data from Smartsheets directly into Spotfire (Cloud).
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration
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