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    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 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

    Ability to increase header size of DE Input for specifically for Characteristic/Label

    It would be helpful to \increase the characteristic/label header length alone (so it doesn't warp to 2 lines, see screenshot) without increasing the input area without having to increase it globally for all DES via application settings.
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 Future Consideration

    Community Expression in Product

    Let's allow expression functions to be contributed by the community. Allow pluggable expression code; Python or IronPython or Spotfire expression syntax; Needs new API
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Reduction of Rendering Artifacts for Map Chart

    Further reduction of rendering artifacts (some layers work better with setting “5", some better with “6” but a) sometimes none of the two is perfect and b) this should be full-auto and not another setting the user has to make. Submitted on behalf ...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    API Documentation Improvement

    So few examples; difficult for a new user to know which properties/methods are useful as there are many that are not. Triggers, events, custom nodes, property names all very difficult to understand. Community examples need more work
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Question API capability

    For bots and Alexa and similar. Ask questions of a DXP - web service API for querying data engine
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Improve Lag/Lead Functions

    Now implemented but documentation doesn't specify how the ordering of rows is important; in addition, the ordering of rows is not guaranteed, so the functions are not trustworthy at present
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration
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