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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 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

5 VOTE

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 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Will not implement

6 VOTE

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

6 VOTE

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

6 VOTE

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

5 VOTE

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

6 VOTE

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

6 VOTE

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

5 VOTE

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

5 VOTE

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

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