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    Apache Phoenix connector

    Spotfire should include a connector for Apache Phoenix
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    option to load all numeric data(int,real,etc) as real

    Spotfire automatically determines data type from first 100 rows of data when loading data from text/excel. A new option is expected by users, that is, "load all numeric data (determined as integer or real or others) as real", in order to use real ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Display total elapsed time in file open details dialog

    Snowball's chance in hell, but what the hell. The open from library dialog shows fine grained detail on elapsed times for the various load operation components, and it all looks very impressive, but it does not add up the total elapsed time for th...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Increase the limit for number of markings to be displayed from an In-db data source (Spotfire Cloud)

    To increase the limit for number of markings to be displayed from an In-db data source(for a table or details on demand) or to provide a feature for end user to control this limit in Spotfire Cloud
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Support of geopckage files

    Today Spotfire can read shape files but geopackage is not readable. Is there any plan to support this format which is Open Format for Geospatial Information ? Regards
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Accesibility of meta data definitions from data sources (e.g. Tibco DataVirtualization)

    Possibility to add meta-data definitions to the data that is provided to the end user of a dashboard in Spotfire (e.g. by enhancing tooltip text with annotation text from TDV views). Meta data definitions can help the end user to understand the da...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Default Column Format for Imported CSV Data

    When importing data from a csv file the number of rows checked to determine the data type is limited to 100 rows. There are cases where the first few hundred rows are set to null before a result can be seen. In such cases even if the result is of ...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Row-Level Security (RSL) for every type of dataset

    Since data protection is a critical topic, having a proper RLS menu with advanced options would help a lot being more flexible while securing how analytics are shared. Today we can only implement Row-Level Security for Information Links.Ideally, w...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Improve loading time of data from Excel

    Loading bigger Excel files can be painfully slow. Try the following: Fill 50 columns, 50000 rows in Excel with random numbers. That should give an excel file around 50MB big. Add this as a data table. It takes around 40s to even open the "Open" di...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Support Synonyms in Spotfire

    Synonyms have been around since 2005 for SQL Server. Per support, synonyms are not available in Spotfire Analyst due to "issue/lack of feature" in the MSSQL JDBC driver. You can find many posts on this issue online, a couple of them are these: ht...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 2 Future Consideration
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