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    Improve Configuration UI for Complex Action Mods

    Enhance the usability and flexibility of the configuration interface for Action Mods, particularly for more complex implementations. As mods grow in complexity, the current configuration window can become crowded and difficult to navigate, making ...
    5 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Embedding Data Functions within Action Mods

    Enable support for embedding data functions directly within the Action Mod package, rather than requiring them to be stored and referenced separately in the Spotfire Library. Currently, Action Mods depend on externally managed data functions, whic...
    5 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Enable Data Connection Management from Action Mods

    Extend the Mod API to allow Action Mods to interact with Spotfire’s data layer, specifically to create, modify, or trigger data connections. Currently, Action Mods cannot: Create new data connections (e.g., databases, APIs, local files) Modify...
    5 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add Document Properties to a Text Area via an Action Mod

    Currently, it is not possible to create a Text Area and embed Document Properties or other objects directly through an Action Mod. While it is possible to: create and edit Text Areas, and create or modify Document Properties via the mod, the...
    5 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    add API to manipulate CheckBoxHierarchyFilter

    One of our customers would like to use the API (via an IronPython script) to manipulate the CheckBoxHierarchyFilter in the following ways: (1) Get the search results. (2) Perform all four actions ("Select", "Deselect", "Select Other Values", and "...
    28 days ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Allow customization of NotificationService timeout duration

    Currently, notifications displayed through the NotificationService in the top-right corner disappear automatically after a fixed period of time.It would be valuable to allow developers to configure the notification timeout duration, for example: ...
    about 1 month ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
    200 VOTE

    API for Text Area Action and Property Controls

    Developers would like to be able to create text areas, properties and input controls in the text area that manipulate those properties. One example would be to have a tool that would perform an S+ calculation. A user of Spotfire could launch a too...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / API 11 Future Consideration
    135 VOTE

    Add Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) capability on Windows Platform

    Requesting Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) capability as a supported feature on Windows Platform. At the time of this request, this is only supported on Linux but it would be great to have the same feature supported on Windows Servers as well
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 2 Will not implement

    allow to specify default value for Actin Mod parameters

    Please add option to allow to specify default value for Actin Mod parameters , e.g. (numberic updown, text field, dropdown list ,etc. In case of an action that has parameters, lots of customers just want to run it with all options filled with defa...
    21 days ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Encoding-sensitive log importing from BCP.exe

    bcp.exe is a Microsoft tool that outputs logs using the operating system's encoding (e.g., MS-932 on a Japanese OS). It appears that DV (via Data Ship or similar) does not specify the OS-native encoding when importing logs from this tool, resultin...
    22 days ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / JDBC / ODBC / ADO 0 To be Reviewed
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