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    Impact Analysis from a table/colomn to an information link or a DXP File

    Hello We need to find the right query on our Oracle database to be able to create a dashboard to do some impact analysis. From a Colomn, Filter, Join ... --> Where does it come from (Database, Table (or View), Table colomn) --> Where is it u...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Library 3 Already exists

    View Library should open current folder

    When you select the View Library menu item, Spotfire takes you to the top level root folder. In my experience this is not where you want to go - it should take you to the current folder for the file that is open in your session. You can always hit...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Command-Line: Create empty folder item in the command prompt

    Would it be possible to have a command that allows us to create empty folder item in the command prompt via config tool? Our team has been attempting to build a custom version control script. Having the ability to create a new empty folder would b...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Library 1 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Repository: Add a column to the LIB_ITEMS table with item keywords

    Add a column to the LIB_ITEMS table that has the item’s keywords (instead of putting it in the LIB_PROPERTIES table)
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Library 1 Future Consideration

    Get rich logging details about loaded web reports

    When using Spotfire professional, a report creator can review the exact information about their report in the diagnostics page (things such as report size, query cache size, runtime, tables, etc). In the various logs outwards (Web logs, mem logs),...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Library 6 Future Consideration

    Partner with data catalogs i.e. Alation, Collibra

    Modern data catalogs can provide lineage from data assets all the way through to BI tools datasets, reports, and even down to the visual level. When a data asset gets changed (for example, a column gets renamed in a data warehouse table) Alation w...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Support Integration with Alation Data Catalog Tool

    My company is using Alation for Data Catalog, it would be great for Spotfire to retrieve field definitions from Alation API, so they could be exposed on Spotfire reports. That tool also does not support importing the Information Links and Report D...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    JAVA API to get Spotfire Report Metadata Information

    Report Metadata information like Report Name, Report Description, Attribute names, Underlying DB table and field name. These information cant be extracted directly from JAVA as there are very few API available. If possible, please make some more J...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Library 2 Future Consideration

    Enable column sorting in schema and output stream

    I am using streambase v7.6.6 In a named schema or table schema, I can't sort the fields by name, which could be handy when I compare a schema with a stream in streambase. I need to do this quite often, e.g. when I need to write into a data table, ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire Streaming 1 Already exists

    Point and Drag Mapping

    When creating the Output of an operator in the properties view, offer a mapping tool to drag functions, input fields, etc to fill in code or expressions. For example: in a map's Output Settings view, I can select the Streams > Input > input1...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire Streaming 2 Future Consideration
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