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Facilitate easier changing of data types in the Information Designer

TIBCO needs to change the Information Designer and make it easier to make mass changes to data types. Currently, this has to be done one by one, column by column. There are functions that allow quicker changes through transformations or the data p...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 4 Future Consideration

Spotfire Analyst - Information designer search result filter and actions improvements

When using the Find All References, the result can contain several thousands of records. It is good to have a list, bu no further action can be done on the items found. In order to help the Administrators, Information Designer users, the following...
about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 2 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 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

Secure proxy configuration for Information Services data sources

For data sources it's not possible to use a proxy with a password in a secure way as the password is visible in the connection URL. With the move to cloud data sources this is an essential setting.
about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 2 Future Consideration

Set the dimension to be used as a measure in the Essbase Connector

Following this idea: https://ideas.tibco.com/ideas/TS-I-5554 It would be useful to be able to set the dimension to be used a measure, even though there is already account dimension found by Spotfire. in short, being able to define (already impl...
over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Add a Favourites folder and Recent Locations option to Information Designer

THis would save a lot of time. The Information Designer doesn’t even remember where you were last, and open at that location. You have to constantly navigate from the root folder. Adding Favourites and Recent Locations would be a great help. Also,...
about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 2 Future Consideration

Pivot / Un-Pivot with in-database connections

When working with in-database connections it would be useful if it was possible to push pivot and un-pivot operations down to the database instead of requiring that data is in Spotfire memory when performing these operations.
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Option to Automatically Create Table Relations for Tables from Relational Databases

It would nice if when adding multiple tables from a relational database there was an option to automatically create the table relations in Spotfire based on the database foreign keys. This would save a lot of time and ensure that the relations rem...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

Load lists and files from SharePoint Online and Webserver

Spotfire should be able to open lists and files from SharePoint Online and for example from http://servername/test.xls. If we were able to link the server name as a mapped folder, you can make it work, but otherwise you need to download all the fi...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 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 ...
almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration