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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.
over 3 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...
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Data Table Properties > link to source within Information Designer

When I look into the "Source Information" tab, present me with a button that can take me directly into information designer for the related information link (if information link is present) - perhaps even make the information link a clickable hype...
over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Add "Scan all Rows" to Import dialog for excel and text files - to improve column data type determination

Spotfire sometimes incorrectly guesses the data type for Excel and text files because it scans only a portion of the rows in the file. Well add an option so it scans the whole thing so we can get that data type right the first time! SPSS Modeler h...
almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

support prompt for parameters on Information Link in Web Player

We can configure prompt or parameter on Information Link or data connection. Currently the behavior is different as (1) prompt on IL is prompted in Analyst (2) prompt on IL is prompted in Web Player (3) parameter on IL is prompted in Analyst (4) p...
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 3 Future Consideration

Selected data input values should turn up in a list of selected values

In case you have to select data input variables from a (very) long list of variables, it is difficult to keep track of all the values you have selected using the ctrl-button. Therefore, whenever you select an input variable, it should be made viss...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

Support Blob storage as data source

Hi Team, I am expecting Spotfire to support Blob storage as a data source. As currently, I am trying to find out the way to connect Spotfire to blob and create an analysis. But I am not able to find any way to connect Spotfire to Blob. I have tri...
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

Statistica Enterprise Server and Spotfire Server integration

This is a set of ideas, the major theme being to enable integration between Spotfire Server (in addition to Analyst) and Statistica Enterprise Server. The follow-up ideas delineate possible key points of this integration. Currently Spotfire Analys...
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Display a specific message when an Information Link datasource has exceeded it´s connection limit

When data from an information link could not be read because an underlying data source has reached it´s connection limit a message should be displayed about that instead of a generic error message about a timeout. The details section of the messag...
almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 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 ...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration