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    add an option to not show "Missing File" dialog if data source's loading setting is set as "New data when possible" on Analyst

    Please add an option to not show "Missing File" dialog (go on loading embedded data without asking) if data source's loading setting is set as "New data when possible" on Analyst, preferable a data table/data source level setting (Data canvas), an...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Add Size to Fit to Appearance menu

    For table visualizations, there is a left-click option (when clicking on a column header) to "Size to Fit", which resizes the column. This is good, but I have to resize every column, which is tedious and inefficient. I would much rather have an op...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Already exists

    Reliable distro files naming convention

    We had invested a lot of effort into building automations that would allow upgrade Spotfire quickly. Every such upgrade process starts with new distro files as inputs. But for some reason, distro filename convention keeps changing and it breaks o...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    Create Health Endpoints for Nodes

    Currently we have no idea if the nodes are available and working. Using AWS infrastructure, we would like health endpoints for the nodes similar to the server so we can automate the infrastructure instead of waiting for failing reports.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Clear IL Prompts before saving a DXP to a library

    Before saving a DXP for consumption for users, have the ability to clear the IL prompts so that when the end user opens the analysis for use, they are presented with a clean form to input info into. Can take this one step further and when saving t...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Network Chart Mod: arrowheads and dendrograms

    In your next update, please allow for directional or bidirectional arrowheads to be included in network charts. This will up the ante in displaying directional graphs. Another useful feature would be to allow the display of networks into dendrogra...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Avoid duplicate labels after formatting numerical axes

    Reformatting a numeric axis by reducing the number of decimals can lead to duplicate (and incorrect) axis labels. Should we consider dropping the duplicate axis labels that are misleading? One could manually reduce the number of labels in the visu...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 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 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Support database connections to Filemaker.

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    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Better Logic / Control over Column Name Changes

    Hello, I've recently had a support case (Case#2463638) about unwanted column name changes when using the "add rows" feature in combining data sets. In discussions around that case, we documented some inconsistencies around column name changes that...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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