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Improvement of " Unable to open analysis " Error message

If user is trying to open a Spotfire dashboard it fails with error " The task could not be completed. Unable to open analysis 'followed by dashboard path' " which is unclear to investigate. It is better if we include reason or complete error messa...
about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

use parameter as identifier in Information link SQL

From time to time, we receive requests from our customers that they want to load data from database where table name is dynamic, e.g. on demand load data from different tablenames all of them have the same column structure. Unfortunately currently...
about 1 month ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Allow excluding a column from the resulting view for Information Links

When loading data from SQL or other external sources, the right hand panel labeled "Columns in Selected View" allows users to unselect fields that are not needed in the analysis. When loading data from an information link, the user is required to ...
3 months ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Permissions for data connections similar as for information links

With information links you can simply give Access permission to the users and the info link can be used in a dashboard, without letting users browse into the folder the info link and use it. With data connections this is not possible: you must gra...
almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Possibility to re-order prompt sequence

To be able to support multiple use-cases with the same template and ultimately same info links it would be required to enable the end user to dynamically re-arrange the prompting sequence. Say the default sequence is prompting for a time range fir...
11 months ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Allow configuring user rights for information designer and data connections with identical right sets

Independet from whether data is accessed using information links or data connections a company would like to be able to control the user rights in an identical way. In our case we would like to be able to define three analyst levels where „setting...
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

JDBC drivers - Summary with all download links

Checking for new versions of the drivers for N vendors is time consuming. The page https://community.tibco.com/wiki/tibco-spotfire-jdbc-data-access-connectivity-details#toc-35 contains some information, but you have to click through dozen of links...
almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Kill existing Data Source connection to the database.

Sometimes the existing data source connection (say A)to the database hangs and no more new connections are established until the old connections are released. Though this can be increased(max connections) at data source level, a) It will not cl...
almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

Spotfire Analyst - Open Information Designer to edit selected Information Link from Data canvas

With a right-click on the icon for the Information Link within the Data canvas, and/or with a button (see attached modified screenshot), the Information Designer would open for editing the selected Information Link. This would improve a lot the wo...
about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Allow relinking of an existing information link to a different data source / database / table

I would like the ability to relink an existing information link to a new data source table when the table is exactly the same as the original. Currently, one would need to create a new information link or add the columns from the new table in the ...
about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 9 Future Consideration