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    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

    Download Containers for Script

    Problem Statement There have been many situations where Developers were asked to generate some kind of file dynamically(Formatted Excel, PDF from Data Function, Images generated from scripts, Word Reports etc.). Mostly it is easy to do so, but pro...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 2 Future Consideration

    add option to turn off automatic column categorization (NUMBERS, CATEGORIES)

    When loading csv file into Analyst, some columns are categorized as "CATEGORIES" automatically even its data type is numeric (Integer, Real, etc.). As far as I know, these columns all have names ending with "mode" or "type", etc. Generally, if col...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 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...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Streaming 0 Unlikely to implement

    Allow transformations for external (in-db) data tables

    One should have the possibility to define transformations on data canvas for external (in-db) tables. Also a possibility to review the data should be possible.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions / Data Streams 0 Future Consideration

    Do not automatically generate cluster columns after dendrogram clustering in heat map

    I find it a bit annoying that cluster membership columns are automatically generated if I calculate dendrograms in a heatmap. I do this in order to group the rows/columns, not to calculate clusters. There should be an option to inactivate the colu...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    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...
    almost 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...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / API 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...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 0 Future Consideration
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