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    Gantt Chart Mod doesn't resize properly

    Currently the Gantt Chart Mod, has the following issues: Background is grey. No option to set the color. Even a default while background would have been fine with us Ability to set the fonts for the labels such as date, year and other attributes R...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Open Information Designer to edit selected Information Link from Data canvas

    With a right-click on the icon for the Information Link within the Data canvas, and/or with a button (see attached modified screenshot), the Information Designer would open for editing the selected Information Link. This would improve a lot the wo...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Google BigQuery API Timeout after 10 seconds

    We have run into an issue which will stop us to develop any valuable datasets in Spotfire. So the situation is the following: When I run a query based on a table definition Spotfire kicks out a bigquery#table job which runs fine with no issues Whe...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Easily switch between configured visualizations

    When building dashboards for our consumer users, for some visualizations, I would like to be able to provide one or more options that the user can easily choose between. As an example I may have a visualization that shows Class sales over time as ...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Map projections

    Add/enable a Google Earth style 3D globe projection. This would solve many issues with World Mercator, lack of polar projections, visualization, etc.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    API to read multiple SBDF files consecutively and append them as a single data table

    I'm proposing an API to read multiple SBDF files consecutively and append them as a single data table. If CustomDataSource is fetching a large SBDF file from a file server (e.g. samba server), I think it would be faster to split it into several SB...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Support scalar stored procedures

    Currently a stored procedure needs to return a table with at least one column in order for Spotfire to create the stored procedure element in Information designer. In Databases like Snowflake, we can have stored procs that only return a scalar val...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

    Filter popup from table header

    Rather than add filters manually in a text box above a table visualization, it would be nice to have filters available in a popup from a click on the column name in a table visualization. This would provide consumers with a cleaner way to access f...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Support impersonation in Data Connections via WebPlayer

    As per case 02092109 we understand that what is no problem with Data Connections + fat client, Information Links + fat client and Information Links + WebPlayer, is not supported for Data Connections + WebPlayer. If the solution to https://ideas.ti...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Multi-factor authentication to connect to Azure database

    Trying to connect to Azure SQL DB (using Active Directory - Password), but every time trying to connect to the DB via Spotfire gets the error : ERROR MESSAGE:Cannot connect to '<servername>.database.windows.net'.System.AggregateException: On...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration
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