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    Possibility to use Properties in all Names fileds

    Properties like Document Properties can be used in for example Page Names or Cross Table Axes Names, but now in Tooltip Value Name or Calculated Value Name (in Graphical Table). Allowing using those in other places allows to build more automated r...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    other (non-red) icon for permission errors

    Currently in the client, if someone bases a view on your code, and then loses permissions to select on your code, your code gets the same white exclamation mark in a red circle that other errors get, while this particular piece of code is just fin...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / development 0 Likely to implement

    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

    Document Custom JDBC Adapter functionality

    Hi, it would be usefull to have an extended documentation for the functionality of creating a custom JDBC adapter, as explained in this video tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvxxq_ynZts or in this article https://support.tibco.com/s/artic...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Planning to implement

    More control over gridlines in 3D scatter plot

    My customers are asking for more control over gridlines in 3D scatter plot. They want to see more minor gridlines to form a lattice and even control where these gridlines are drawn.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    REST API for logging out

    We have an application that launches Spotfire for reporting, passing user identity via a token to a custom authentication filter within Spotfire. We have no way for the application to log out of Spotfire once it's opened an analysis for a user. We...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 3 Future Consideration

    Custom Expression Manager

    A mechanism is needed to manage and edit all custom expressions at a document level and then by reference not have to repeat them by chart or property control. Currently we employ document properties to manage large or complex expressions, and any...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire client loader should renegotiate a full handshake with the server if it receives a malformed ticket.

    Currently it drops the connection. It would be far more elegant to renegotiate a full handshake.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 3 Needs Info

    Add an aggregation method to find the Nth most common value

    MostCommon is a pretty useful aggregation method, for example when you have a large set of defective parts across different products and these are defective for different reasons and you want to see the most prominent error say per product. Very e...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    Provide method (CanReplaceDataFlow) for DataTableDataSourceOperation class

    For File DataSource and Information Link Data Source it is possible to replace only parts of how the data table is constructed w/o impacting the rest of the data table construction (see e.g. https://community.tibco.com/s/article/How-to-replace-the...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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