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Disable "Identify origin of rows" option by default

Hello, When adding rows to a data table In the "Settings for added rows" menu, there is the option to "identify origin of rows", which is switched on by default. This creates a new column of type string, that includes the origin. However, the stri...
12 days ago in Spotfire / Data Management To be Reviewed

Web player support for data canvas transformations

The web player experience does not currently support transformations within the data canvas. This would be a helpful feature, especially for non-Windows users.
about 1 month ago in Spotfire / Data Management To be Reviewed

Developement with Data Limiting Applied

Would it be possible to have an option in Spotfire Analyst that launches reports in Development Mode, where in any query is limited to X rows, where X is a customizable option (e.g. 1000). This would allow my users and I to load reports quickly, w...
7 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management Future Consideration

Re-organize Data Canvas Data Sources

I wish to re-organize and/or color code the Data Table order in the Data Canvas to keep related data sources visually close to each other as a project is built out.
8 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management Future Consideration

make more clear message for errors in calculated column functions.

I'd like to see clearer error messages. It's hard to tell what kind of error a function error is. It's hard to tell from the message what's wrong and how to fix it. Even if it's written in character count, I have to count it, which is hard to unde...
8 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Visualization Future Consideration

Individual Load Cancellation in Feature Service Connector

When using the ESRI Feature Service connector, I selected five tables to load simultaneously. One of the tables entered an infinite-loading state, and there was no option to stop only that specific table. The only available action was to cancel th...
8 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management Future Consideration

Merge columns even if the data types are different.

When merging columns (data joins), even if the column names are the same, they won't be automatically matched if the data types don't match. When there's a large amount of data, setting each column individually can be time-consuming, so we'd like ...
8 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management Future Consideration

Smart Data Source Optimizer

In many enterprise Spotfire deployments, reports connect to wide tables or views via JDBC or Infolinks, often bringing in 50–200 columns by default—even when only a fraction of these columns are actually used in visualizations, expressions, or scr...
8 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Information Services Future Consideration

Add column search in data in analysis flyout

Current, in the data analysis flyout, I need need to scroll through the entire list of columns to find the one I want to select or edit. This becomes inefficient when working with wide datasets containing dozens or hundred of columns. Previously, ...
11 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management Already exists

At the intersection of two datasets within data canvas, have the ability to replace both as if you could with an individual dataset.

If you want to merge two datasets that could be parts of a whole with many transformations after that merge, there should be an option to replace the dataset at the intersection with the complete dataset so that the transformations that would be d...
about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Management Future Consideration
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