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Enable parameters on Data connections

Data connections are a fast but pretty limited way to add data to analysis. While it is nice to be able to use direct SQL, it is limiting that it is not easy to pass parameters that would allow logical WHERE Conditions. Today we can only pass inpu...
over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

Fix the way Spotfire in-database connection generates highly inefficient SQL query

This is more of an issue/bug than an enhancement/idea. Spotfire in-database connection generates highly inefficient SQL query with WHERE clause when it is not at all required. For example, if a visualization is showing a metric/measure such as Sal...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Add hyperlinks directly to Information Designer objects in Document and Column Properties

Can we add a hyperlink in the Data Table and Column Properties, which opens the Information Designer - and opens the object immediately. It is time consuming to copy the ID and search for the item, or navigate to the folder - especially as the Inf...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

Support for oData properties

One of our users has asked that the oData connector support accessing entry properties
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

add support of LONG BINARY type from Vertica

Customer is asking for support of LONG BINARY type from Vertica. Currently only BINARY/VARBINARY is supported by Vertica connector. They use BINARY/VARBINARY/LONG BINARY in Vertica to store images, however both BINARY and VARBINARY are limited to ...
10 months ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Addition of Pre-Updates queries in data connections

Hi. If a query needs some pre-calculations such as temporary tables we use the pre-updates section in the custom SQL in the Information Link page. If we want to use the direct DB access using the data connection method, we get an error because o...
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

Make Spotfire connect to SQream DB.

The customer have SQream DB. They can install ODBC.But cannot use information link or data on demand.Please add feature for connect to SQream DB directly.
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

Preview top N rows before adding data from Library

Suppose I want to browse available data in Information Links or SBDF's stored in my Spotfire Library. I would like to preview the top few rows of this data before importing it to analysis. When setting up a Data Connection, you are able to preview...
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

To be able to access the data source files from sharepoint when Linked to Source option is set

This idea is in association with case # 01468964. Please refer to this case for more details. Details : We are unable to access any source data file in web player which is currently placed in sharepoint when Linked to Source option is set. When r...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

More details in action log for Information Links

The new(ish) action logging for data connections is excellent - we can easily see from a single record what type of database was used, the specific database, how long the query took and how much data was returned. Extracting similar data for Infor...
about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services / System Administration 0 Future Consideration