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Data Access

    Validate data sources from a report.

    It would be helpful to validate that all data sources are accessible for a report. If an information link, or network shared file gets removed, the report might only indicate a problem when updating data, but not be very clear when it does. Being ...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Cognite Data Fusion connector

    Cognite Data Fusion is an increasingly popular data platform and we want a supported Spotfire CDF connector.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Load shapefiles from file geodatabase

    Currently we have to keep two copies of a "shapefile", one in a geodatabase for performant use in ArcGIS and a second as an extracted shapefile for use in Spotfire. I'd like Spotfire to be able to load shapefiles from a file geodatabase (not just ...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    add "Rename" to the context menu of "Views in Connections" dialog

    Please add "Rename" to the context menu of table list in the "Views in Connections" dialog. See attached screenshot. Some may not notice that single click can rename a table.
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Likely to implement

    Connectors Load Type Visibility

    Show whether in memory or in database when creating connection as you often don't realise it defaults to in-database. Change default to in-memory or allow it to be configurable in options or administration manager.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Choose the default data type when importing Excel files

    It would be useful to have a default data type setting when importing Excel files. This would prevent the user from having to select a certain type for each column if they wanted them all to be the same. For example, if a user wants all of the col...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    SFDC (Salesforce.com) Custom Query

    Hello, We would like to have Custom Queries enabled for SFDC (Salesforce.com) when using the current connector. Presently, we can only import a report or table as a whole, without the ability to customize queries in SQL. This would simplify a lot ...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Change default load method when using a Data Connector.

    By default, when creating a data table from a Data Connector, the default load method is always set to Keep Data External unless the Load method on the data connector has been set Imported Data Only Similarly, when opening a data connector from th...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    PostgreSQL connector available from the web client

    Having the Spotfire Connector for PostgreSQL available from the web authoring client, would remove the need to install the desktop client to create and modify connections to PostgreSQL data sources.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Likely to implement

    Disable option to embed data

    I have created a library item that has data linked from a SQL Server database and would like to allow a user to save their analysis but not allow them to embed the data in the analysis.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration
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