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    Determine column types using type information in data set rather than data values

    Spotfire infers column types by examining the values in (the first 1000) rows of the data set being loaded. This generally works well but makes mistakes often enough that manual correction becomes laborious. A case in point is when real-valued dat...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    DataFunction support for external data (in-db)

    The current DataFunction paradigm only allows for sending data from and to the Spotfire in-memory data engine. For a Spotfire user, a Spotfire data table is a Spotfire data table, whether it is external or not. For data science and analysis applic...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Android app should support Kerberos SSO

    Unlike the ios app, the Android app does not support SSO (as configured via the sso url in the Spotfire settings). As a result only our ios users can utilize the app
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Mobile 4 Future Consideration

    Add control switches for LDAP safe-synchronization behavior

    In some scenarios with temporal network connectivity issues, when using LDAP synchronization and safe-synchronization enabled, there are sync issues on WARN level, so the user sync continues and "succeeds" and, afterwards, so does the group sync. ...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Give back the DXP Analyst Option : Allow authoring in web clients

    Some DXP file needs to be un-editable buy Business Author users. In 7.8 we could un check the option "Allow authoring in web clients" in the Document Properties. We lost the function in v10. User can't alreay modify what is in "DashBoard" folder (...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Event Based Scheduling (Trigger from a file or schedule)

    Other BI tools that we use have the concept of event based scheduling. So in addition to a schedule firing at a given time/day and frequency the schedule only fires if a designated trigger file can be found or another schedule that this schedule i...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 4 Future Consideration

    Enhancement to create custom tool API

    Custom tool API allows us to specify the tool name/license/menu category/icon ... These custom menus automatically show up in the 'customize toolbar ...' area. We have a large number of such custom tools that we would like to hide from 'Customize ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 2 Future Consideration

    Make it possible to export data to Google Drive from the Spotfire web client and installed client.

    We would like the possibility to export data in CSV and/or Google sheet format from the Spotfire web and installed clients.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Export 4 Future Consideration

    Improve "Organize Filters" dialog

    Currently it is really cumbersome to organize the filters, especially if you have many data tables and/or many columns in a data table. Improvements should include (but are not limited to): ability to search for columns like in other dialogs to b...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 2 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Matlab service

    We use data functions written in Matlab. I would like these to be run through a "Spotfire Service for Matlab" just in the same way as the "Spotfire Service for Python" that already exists.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration
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