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    Information Link Cachable Setting should be exposed and supported in Web Administrator panel.

    We are exploring the cache-able property in information link (information designer) . So the information link will be cached based on the timeout settings. There is no way to specify the time period (ex. between 7 Am to 10 PM) right now, and there...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 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 button Export to PPT to Tool bar

    We recently upgraded from Spotfire 7.6 to 7.11 LTS and found that the button "Export to PPT" has been replaced with "Export to PDF" on the toolbar. We use this option frequently and need it to be added back to the toolbar.
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Export 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

    Resize Cross-Table row heights automatically as per data (especially when exporting to PDF)

    When exporting a report to PDF, it would be helpful to view all cross-table data. Currently if the row height is not expanded manually by the user, all cross-table data is not visible in the PDF export.
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    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

    Update more than one data table in a file but not all

    I have files with many different data tables. At times I need to update say 5 of the 10 data tables I have. Currently I have to independently update each of the data tables or refresh all the data tables in the file. I would like the ability to se...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Mandatory and optional prompts

    There seems to be no means to define a prompt as mandatory or optional as there is on Information links. Connector prompts should be possible to configure as mandatory or optional.
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    propagate Document Properties value change to Data Transformation

    We know that if Document Properties is referenced by an expression for Calculated Columns or Custom Expression, if the value of the Document Properties is changed, then the expression is evaluated automatically. However if Document Properties is r...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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