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    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
    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...
    about 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
    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

    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

    Add Passkey authentication to Salesforce connector

    Salesforce has changed their authentication method for key users to use. They are moving to “phishing-resistant MFA” passkey authentication which the existing connector does not support.
    2 months ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire keychain credentials and password manager

    Spotfire should provide a native keychain credentials and password manager so that I don't need to remember passwords to all connector data sources.
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 4 Future Consideration

    Decouple Database Selection from Data Source

    When creating a Data Source, most Connectors currently include the selection of a Database and the Schema Browser shows just the Tables in the chosen Database. It would be preferable to just set the server cection details and then list all availab...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Integration with Google Workforce Identity Federation

    https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-workforce-identity-federation Customer states they are aligning with Google to embrace their WIF feature across their organization. Currently, Spotfire users are unable to authen...
    4 months ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 To be Reviewed
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