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    support for JDBC data source connection

    Please support connections to data sources through JDBC driver. Even though most databases that can be connected through JDBC, also have ODBC driver available, and there is also ODBC-JDBC bridges out there for user to consider, it might still be g...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 1 Future Consideration

    Spotfire text areas to be exported as an editable document

    Dear Team, I work as a Spotfire administrator and many time our developers contacted me for editable Spotfire text areas in exported document. For example, if a text area has a paragraph, users like to be able to export that to something such as P...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Export 0 Future Consideration

    Better JSON parsing support

    When you get JSON strings and you need to extract a few fields to table format for Spotfire consumption it would be nice having an efficient and easy to use parser to do this out of the box. Something like: JSONGetField( JSONString, ”afieldname” ...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Bring back the Microsoft PP edit image capabilities in web player

    Bring back the Microsoft PP edit image capabilities in web player
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Export 1 Future Consideration

    Japanese-language display of two new color schemes in Spotfire version 12

    In Spotfire version 12, two new color schemes are available, but I would like to improve the Japanese translation of them in the Japanese version of Spotfire. Currently, it is written as "accessible". But the correct meaning is "easy to see" or "...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Improve JDBC Query operators and Data constructs

    Query JDBC operator should behave/look as close as it could to "In memory tables". One case is the one stated in "SB-44976 JDBC Query Op Output Settings cannot use aggregate expressions" . Another would be that for an In Memory table we can define...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire Streaming 0 Unlikely to implement

    Allow access to HttpServletResponse from the custom authentication APIs

    We currently use the Authentication Filter capability (which has been deprecated) of Spotfire to implement a couple of features that don't appear to be possible with the CustomAuthenticator API: In certain situations we'll redirect the browser to...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / API 3 Future Consideration

    Spotfire as a Service

    Spotfire Web should behave as a service. We should be able to load and query a Spotfire analysis via an external API and query it for data, results from aggregated visualisations, visualisation images, etc.. This means that we would be able to use...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    A more customizable Gantt chart for scheduling

    Currently you can only have one start/end for a task and not a start/end for multiple tasks. A view like the one below would be very helpful.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add ability to programmatically determine what objects are included in a cache policy.

    Using a policy has exponentially reduced the time to complete the full cache refresh (from ~ 3 hours to just over 1 hour). However, there is no way to determine which views/objects have been added to a policy, thus managing the cache refresh proce...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 0 Future Consideration
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