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    Add a "Favourites" folder, and "recently visited" option to the Information Designer

    This would be very useful if you use the Information Library a lot, and have complex folder structures (like me!!)...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

    Clear error messages ironpython scripts

    Please improve the error messges for failed iron python scripts. For example when a script triggers another script or changes a document property that triggers another script, it is not clear in which script results in giving in an error.
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Capability to Search Views/Objects in Folder

    Currently there are too many objects (views/Procedures etc) in a specific folder where we end up scrolling through the whole of them to identify the object we need to view in Studio. If can introduce the capability to apply search and filter only ...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / development 1 Future Consideration

    Automatically execute procedure when user logs in.

    Many times we need a way to trigger a procedure when a user logs in. The procedure could be associated to a user login, or to a virtual database. When the account connects to TDV, it will automatically trigger.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / access control 0 Future Consideration

    Improve loading time of data from Excel

    Loading bigger Excel files can be painfully slow. Try the following: Fill 50 columns, 50000 rows in Excel with random numbers. That should give an excel file around 50MB big. Add this as a data table. It takes around 40s to even open the "Open" di...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Easily copy ID of all library item types from library administration tool

    I sometimes need the ID of library items. That's possible for analysis files, but not so simple for library data or folders. I suggest in the library administration tool to have another option when you right-click on any item to copy it's ID, just...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Create a Data Function definition (.sfd file) directly from RStudio

    WHAT: Provide utility functions, documentation, perhaps UI for an R author to create a Data Function Definition directly from RStudio WHY: Enable an R author to create Data Functions without having to use the Spotfire UI, and do more of their work...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R 0 Future Consideration

    Easily display htmlwidgets/Javascript visualizations from TERR in Spotfire

    WHAT: TERR can create interactive visualizations using htmlwidgets based (and other) Javascript visualizations, but there is not an easy way to return those to display in Spotfire. There should be a simple and straightfoward way of doing this. WHY...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R 0 Future Consideration

    support to load data from csv/txt/excel etc files via FTP protocol

    One of our customers would like to have the ability to load data from csv/txt/excel etc files via FTP protocol.
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    add scroll bar to page navigation popup

    Just curious, when we have more than 30 tabs or pages, a small arrow shows up to navigate to different pages or tabs. Is there a way to scroll fast on that or you have to keep clicking the arrow to go up/down?
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 2 Future Consideration
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