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    Spotfire Mods vs Native Visuals

    After working extensively with Mods in production scenarios, one limitation keeps surfacing over and over: Mods operate on a materialized data view, while native visuals operate on top of Spotfire’s semantic layer. This difference might seem subtl...
    6 months ago in Spotfire / API 3 Needs Info

    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...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 4 Future Consideration

    Ability to export search results from Library Search

    After having done a Library search (e.g. in Analyst > Tools menu > Library Administration), sometimes I would like to be able to export the search results, for further analysis or logging.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    expose compact hierarchy filter for TreeMap

    TreeMaps are important hierarchical visualizations and navigating the hierarchy is an important interaction for treemaps. I do this all the time. So do my friends. Users are tyoically not modifying any of the other settings, but they need to navig...
    6 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    PI Connector to Spotfire

    PI Connector to Spotfire is not very useful. It hangs when a larger data set is selected and the connector does not allow for multiple queries at the same time. The PI connector needs to be more like the one that is on the Spotfire Streaming platform
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Planning to implement

    Scale Axis Lines need to be darker in Trellis plots

    Spotfire graphics submitted for publication are criticized by reviewers for axis lines which are too light. Research on the support website indicated that the Visual Theme settings for Visualization Scale line color could be used to change the col...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 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...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 2 Future Consideration

    Do cache refresh in push down where possible

    In case the cache table is in the same database as all the other tables contributing to the cache, the cache refresh should run in full push down. This instead of selecting and bringing all the data from the database to the TDV server and then sen...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 5 Already exists

    smooth the line curves in Spotfire

    The line curves in Spotfire aren't that smooth as the curves in Excel prompting management preference at times to dashboards with static curves in excel over the dynamic dashboards from Spotfire. Please make the line curves smooth to defeat the co...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 3 Future Consideration

    Allow AS 4.x operator schema to be set by the schema asserted on an input port.

    Please refer to Case #02057640 The goal is to have a reusable module that does not need to change itself, but gets its schemas (and the AS operator schema) from context.
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire Streaming 0 Future Consideration
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