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Azure Analysis Services Authentication Support OAuth2

Currently, the Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services / Microsoft Azure Analysis Services connector only supports authentication methods: Windows authentication OR Username and password. The (now deprecated) Custom Spotfire® Connector to Azure SQL...
14 days ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration

Hide the Actual Password in Saved Credentials Settings

When a connection data source has saved credentials, the password field may display dots corresponding to the actual password length. If the actual password is retained in the field, users may be able to reveal it using external tools. We would l...
15 days ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration

Support for opening Microsoft Purview-protected Excel files in Spotfire

Currently, when an Excel file is saved with the "Strictly Confidential" sensitivity label, the user who saved the file can open the file normally in Excel, but cannot open the same file in Spotfire. It would be appreciated if Spotfire could suppor...
28 days ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration

Enhance the Azure Analysis Services connector to dynamically generate and push down DAX statistical queries (like MEDIAN and PERCENTILE.INC), enabling natively supported Box Plots and Histograms while keeping data in External (Live) Mode.

The Use Case: As organizations increasingly adopt Microsoft Fabric and centralized Semantic Models (via Azure AS / XMLA endpoints) to handle massive enterprise datasets, Spotfire data scientists need to leverage Spotfire's statistical visualizatio...
about 2 months ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration

allow to discard automatically detected name row when importing data from excel

We learnt from support that I quote, Spotfire automatically identifies the first row containing only string values and uses it as the name row. Currently, this behavior cannot be modified when importing an Excel file. For example if we have a exce...
about 2 months ago in Spotfire / Data Access To be Reviewed

Add Passkey authentication to Salesforce connector

Salesforce has changed their authentication method for key users to use. They are moving to “phishing-resistant MFA” passkey authentication which the existing connector does not support.
about 2 months ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration

Improve UX when ODBC connection fails due to SQL errors

When setting up an ODBC connection, if the SQL(custom query) is incorrect, the process restarts from the beginning (from the connection settings), which is an issue. It would be helpful if it returned to the SQL input screen. Furthermore, being ab...
3 months ago in Spotfire / Data Access To be Reviewed

Integration with Google Workforce Identity Federation

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-workforce-identity-federation Customer states they are aligning with Google to embrace their WIF feature across their organization. Currently, Spotfire users are unable to authen...
4 months ago in Spotfire / Data Access To be Reviewed

AI support for writing SQL queries in Information links

There should be AI support in Spotfire for writing SQL in information links. This should work also for cases where separate data tables need to be combined.
6 months ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services Future Consideration

Support Parameterization of SELECT Clause in Custom Queries

Enable parameterization of the SELECT statement (column list) within custom SQL queries in Spotfire. Currently, query parameters can be used in filters and conditions, but not to dynamically control which columns are returned. This limits flexibil...
7 months ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration
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