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    134 VOTE

    Support temporary tables in data connections

    When retrieving on-demand data Spotfire's information designer supports creating temporary tables to avoid huge WHERE clauses (link) which can not only be a performance issue but infact hinder a query from being executed completelly. Temporary tab...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 7 Future Consideration

    Support Parameterization of SELECT Clause in Custom Queries

    Enable parameterization of the SELECT statement (column list) within custom SQL queries in Spotfire. Currently, query parameters can be used in filters and conditions, but not to dynamically control which columns are returned. This limits flexibil...
    7 months ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration
    182 VOTE

    Better support of web services

    When you need to consume data from a web service in Spotfire there are different options like implementing a custom data source, develop an Iron Python script, use an R script on your Stats server or use something like Composite or Jboss Teiid tha...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 5 Future Consideration
    145 VOTE

    Load Parquet, ORC and Avro data files from Amazon S3 and HDFS

    Spotfire should be able to connect to and read Parquet, ORC and Avro files from Amazon S3 and HDFS.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 9 Future Consideration
    105 VOTE

    Support for Clickhouse of column-oriented database

    we are currently storing analysis data in the ClickhouseDB, want to create an environment for analysis using BI tool. As we know, Clickhouse has a JDBC Driver ( https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-jdbc ), but Spotfire doesn't support Clickhou...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    allow to discard automatically detected name row when importing data from excel

    We learnt from support that I quote, Spotfire automatically identifies the first row containing only string values and uses it as the name row. Currently, this behavior cannot be modified when importing an Excel file. For example if we have a exce...
    2 months ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 To be Reviewed

    Persist MasTask runner log files

    When an MasTask runner encounters an error, the process is that is will shut down the MasTask runner process. During the shutdown, the temp folder created to contain the task runner information, including the log created to contain additional info...
    5 months ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 Future Consideration
    140 VOTE

    Google spreadsheets as a data source in spotfire.

    Spotfire webplayer or server should implement google sheets as a datasource.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 7 Planning to implement

    Update StatInstallInfo.xml when Enterprise DSN information changes so during an upgrade the DNS information is correct

    During an upgrade, login will not be possible is the Enterprise DSN password is ever changed. It would be good when the box at the bottom that says "Set as system default connection" is checked, then the connection string in the StatInstallInfo.xm...
    3 months ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 To be Reviewed

    Allow any type of authentication for the SharePoint connector; now, Spotfire only supports OAuth2.

    Customers are trying to configure their Azure AD for SAML authentication, but the Spotfire SharePoint connector does not support this.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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