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    Connecting Oracle Data Source using Oracle Internet Directory LDAP/LDAPS

    As per CIS-65495, this feature is not supported. This feature for LDAP works flawlessly in most cases; however, in some cases it doesn't work. Also, there is no clear directives on how to configure Oracle data source using OID on LDAPS. For a firm...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Adding an "Uncheck All" (for columns) box when adding a Data Table

    Having an option to uncheck all boxes in the "Excel Import Settings" Wizard, when loading a table or file into spotfire, would save lots of time instead of having to manually uncheck all the columns you do not want included. Thank you.
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Change (Empty) in axis values of cross table

    When a value for a column on the axis of a cross table is missing, "(Empty)" is displayed. This looks awful. It should be possible to display those entries as empty cells. It can be done by using something like sn([axis column], "") for strings or...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Button to switch from copied table to original table in data canvas

    In data canvas i want to switch to the table which is copied in another table via a simple button. In big data models with a lot of tables you can switch easier to the table which is in the acutall shown table just copied / linked.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Routing to multiple web player nodes

    In our production environment we have multiple web player nodes each with two instances. We have a number of critical reports that we run as a scheduled update where we select 2 in the 'number of instances' dropdown. The issue with default routing...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 2 Future Consideration

    Don't deprecate the export/import automation services tasks

    The "export library items" and "import library items" automation services tasks have been deprecated as the server configuration command line has been updated to include similar features. We make use of automation services tasks within scripts tha...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 2 Future Consideration

    Option to display guidelines that track horizontally and vertically across visualisation charts

    Could we have "on hover" guidelines that track a mouse movement over a chart and help the user to orientate his or herself against the X and Y axes' values? This is particularly for scatter charts. It would be great if we could also display the ex...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Hide markers on Scatter Chart

    Add the option to hide markers on scatter graph and only show the line connectors. Currently, markers can only be displayed in the background, made very small and have relatively innocuous shapes assigned to them but this creates an untidy appeara...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Descriptive naming of operations in transformations in data canvas

    When working with the data canvas, it can be difficult to see details of the operations have been performed on the data. For example, every calculated column is listed as "Calculate new column". If there are lots of calculated column, each one mus...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Get the "Display Name" of expressions set from Property Control

    When using a Property Control based on a drop-down selection, where the "Set property value through" = Expressions, there is no way currently to get the "Display Name" values. These values can be re-used in Custom Expressions for example. Thank yo...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration
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