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    TIBCO Spotfire Connector for Hortonworks- Specify YARN queue for Hive queries

    Currently there is no way to specify the yarn queue that should be used to run Hive queries. So all queries from Spotfire are run in the default queue. Hortonworks ODBC driver enables this in HTTP Options by specifying it in Custom HTTP Headers......
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Identifying Datatypes importing .csv file.

    If columns in .csv file have empty cells, they are identified as "String" automatically when the first 101 cells are empty (or null), and any other value e.g a real value after that cell Spotfire will still consider the data type "String" while it...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Make Data Wrangling tool like Tibco Data Science flows and similar tools like Knime or Pentaho Data Integration

    To make the data wrangling tool more easy to understand how the data change it would be nice to have flows like Data Science or other tools with this approach, like Knime or Pentaho. Tableau do that in Data Prep. Other possibility it´s to make the...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Hyperlink directly to Information Links/Column Objects directly from within Data Table or Column properties

    You know what I have to do 50 times a day? Edit->Data Table Properties Copy out the GUID of the information link Close Data Table Properties Open Information Designer Search for id::xxxxxxx (GUID) Why cant I just have a hyperlink in data t...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Allow initial value setting of parameter(s) in parameterized Information Link

    Related to Idea-46, but for parameterized Information Link. #### Scenario Currently, there's a pop-up asking for _test value_ for parameter used in Information Link upon loading (see .png). I realized using Prompts instead on Parameters allow for ...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Read Tables from PDF files

    It would be great to be able to import tables existing in PDFs. Like the feature in other tools, I am sure TIBCO can do it better!
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Scheduled update file should share common cached data when there are multiple analysis with same IL exists

    As per current design, when scheduled update runs, individual analysis cached with all data preloaded. So even if multiple analysis are there with same IL , they have individual copy of data in it. Data must be preloaded on Webplayer server (Singl...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Pass Parameters while connecting to Odata using Odata Connector

    Odata Connector currently doesnt allow passing paramters in to the URL, it would be nice to have the functionality out of the box to be able to filter the data while loading into spotfire
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 4 Future Consideration

    Add ability to change the connections from the logon screen

    When moving from Spotfire 7.11 to Spotfire 7.13 and beyond (including 10), connecting to Azure SQL could not connect because the default selection (which is grayed out on the log on screen) could not be changed so that users can connect to the tem...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Custom Query global trust (aka Trust-All for custom queries)

    Spotfire uses trust feature to prevent malicious scripts from execution. This includes also SQL scripts defined as custom queries. While this feature increases the security of the solution, trusting the queries is troublesome. The IronPython scr...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 3 Future Consideration
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