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Ability to set isolation level of ODBC connections

Currently you barely have any options when setting up an ODBC connection (In our case to DB2). We need the feature to be able to set the isolation level to uncommitted read to increase the database performance and to prevent lockings. The setting ...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 4 Future Consideration

API to adjust visualization size

Customer would like to call API to adjust visualization size from IronPython script. Please expose relative APIs. Preferably, (1) adjust height,width of any visual (2) switch position of 2 visuals (3) retreive current page layout configuration (to...
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

Better Treemap visualisation (label, shape)

Would it be possible to improve the Treemap visualisation to avoid the unreadable text labels in this visualisation? It could also be possible to switch to other type of shapes (like circles or voronoïds) in this kind of visualistion. Great lookin...
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

Locking a Filtering Scheme

Sometimes, I need "static" filters in visualisations. This can be done e.g. by using an expression to limit the data. However, to filter lots of different columns for a number of values, the expression becomes quite confusing (lots of and/ors with...
almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 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...
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

Add a way to update manually the calculated columns formula in case of embedded data table

Whenever I update the formula for a calculated columns in an embedded table, all formulas are refreshed until I can update other columns and it can take a long time with large data table (10 mio rows) and when you have multiple columns to update e...
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

Enable marker edge thickness to be modified

When a scatterplot has many overlapping points, it can be difficult to distinguish them and determine how many there are. The way that this is best addressed in most other plotting packages is: Reduce the transparency of the color filling the poin...
about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

Reusable data limiting expressions (includes data limiting per page)

I stumbled accross TS-I-5450 because I want to have data limiting per page. Thinking a bit more about this, I came up with the idea that it would be cool to have a list of expressions which could be used for data limiting. Basically, I am thinking...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration

Provide actionable and detailed descriptions of _Configuring Document_ background process

Scenario Observing the log for certain processes, it seems that procedures labeled as Configuring document tend to create runtime bottlenecks. Example In Step #2 below, only 2 seconds elapsed between Executing function and Creating output data... ...
about 3 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

Spotfire Data Functions need to support native 'String List' type as inputs or outputs

Spotfire's Data Funcitons are among the top differentiators from its competitor tools and I use them often to create very valuable and sophisticated user work-flows that takes a complex process and makes it seem trivial. In creating a specific wor...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration