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    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

    create relation between tables on more than 3 columns

    One of our customers wants to create relation between tables on more than 3 columns, when loading data from database via connector. Currently at most 3 columns can be used to build relation between tables.
    almost 3 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...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 2 Future Consideration

    Enable Custom SOQL for the SalesForce connector

    The current connector (7.10) only allows 2K rows from SFDC reports. In order to get around this, one must execute custom SOQL (SFDC SQL). The custom SQL is grayed-out for this connector. Importing entire SFDC tables is not an option; for large com...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 3 Future Consideration

    NTLM Authentication on Data Adapters

    It looks like currently we have only 4 option to use for Data Adapters in Webplayer (Prompt, Kerberos, Webconfig and Service Account). Is it possible to consider adding NTLM authentication as well. As we use NTML authentication on the spotfire ser...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Will not implement

    Browse for missing information links in on-demand tables

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    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Set the sequence of caching information link.

    The ability to have more control over caching information links. Currently there is no way to schedule information links to cache one after each other. The customer here would like able to set the sequence of triggered information link caching to ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Initial Value of the parameter in the CustomSQL of the InDatabase Connector should be set to NULL

    The initial value of the parameter in the CustomSQL has default value as '10' (for numeric data types) and 'test'(for alphanumeric data types). These should be NULL by default.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Display Parent-child hierarchies in SSAS as a hierarchy

    SSAS has an option to identify hierarchies within dimensions where there is a parent child relationship. However unless hierarchies are explicitly created in a cube, they dont show up in Spotfire. Attached is a screenshot that shows the Adventurew...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Mandatory and optional prompts

    There seems to be no means to define a prompt as mandatory or optional as there is on Information links. Connector prompts should be possible to configure as mandatory or optional.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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