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Better control of Information Services database jobs and scheduled updates to improve system stability

With Resource Monitor it's possible to set limits on how many open analysis Web Player can have and how much memory Web Player can use but this barely scratches the surface of what we want to set limits on to assure the stability of a large Spotfi...
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Make Information Designer a non-modal form

50 times a day, I open Information Designer, navigate a complex folder hierarchy, make my change and close the Designer. Why can’t I keep my Information Designer open all the time in the background and minimise it. Either that or make it a separat...
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services / User Experience 1 Already exists

Add a "Favourites" folder, and "recently visited" option to the Information Designer

This would be very useful if you use the Information Library a lot, and have complex folder structures (like me!!)...
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 1 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.
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Data Management 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 7 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...
about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 3 Future Consideration

Programmatic access to and creation of data connections

Workflows in our non-Spotfire application generate result data sets in the form of database views. Once created, we have a need to share these views with Spotfire users and analysis files. The workflow need to programmatically define Spotfire data...
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Redirect the Information Link connection between Spotfire Sites

We are using two different sites in two different regions (Region A and Region B). The Spotfire database is replicated and synchronized in the two regions. When an information link has been created in site A, a url is produced with the site A serv...
about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 1 Needs Info

Add back MySQL data source template

We noticed that MySQL data source template is removed from Spotfire Server, that's quite confusing. We have lots of customers that utilize Information Link to retrieve data from MySQL, MySQL is commonly used and it's more than necessary to have a ...
about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Data loading progress indicator

Spotfire should provide a continuously updated progress indicator showing how much data of the total amount of data that has been loaded. If it's not possible to query the data source for the total amount of data an estimate or even a fake progres...
about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration