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    More informative error messages when failing to open information link

    "I wish there was better, more informative error handling." 1. In information designer, find an information link which contains a column element of type string.2. Change the type of the column element to integer.3. Open the information link. Resul...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Use SQL Server User table functions in Spotfire Professional Client through Information Designer .

    Currently in Spotfire Professional Client through Information Designer , SQL Server User table functions doesn't work.User wants Spotfire the ability to use SQL Server User table functions from information deisgner. User created below function , b...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to search columns in the data connector dialog

    When defining a view in data connection to a data table with many columns, it would be great to have a search field to allow you to search for a desired column to add/remove from the connection, as this can be a very time consuming process if you ...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Linked to Source option in Business Author version

    Hi, Currently, Business Author licence allows only to embed the data or Info link (if we need linked to source). We have purchased 15 BA licences and all the users would like to have this "Linked to source" option to read data from source for Busi...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Hortonworks connector system trust store support

    It's a pain to distribute and maintain certificate (.pem) files on Windows clients for the ODBC driver for Hortonworks. The Spotfire connector for Hortonworks should have a checkbox that enables the system trust store instead of the driver's local...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Add Connectivity to Canary Data Historian

    As an oil & gas client, we collect millions of data points from field/plant automation points through Cygnet and store data in the Canary data historian - a NoSQL timeseries database. Canary suggests using the ODBC driver to connect to Spotfir...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    configure OAuth2IdentityProviders for Analyst in no-server mode

    With the newly added MS SQL Server connector since 14.2, by using "Identity provider(oauth2)" authentication method, we were able to connect to MS SQL Server via OAuth2 authentication. However, the identity provider must be configured in advance i...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Add option to prompt user before reloading data all data from button on the toolbar

    We work with some large data sets and sometimes mistakenly click on the reload data icon on the toolbar. Cancelling this action takes quite a bit of time. I'd like a configuration option which creates a secondary prompt after clicking the reload d...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Allow change data source load method between external and import

    Customer request this feature to make spotfire even more easy to use. As you know when importing data from database via data connector, either external or import can be specified, however it can not be changed after the import is done. Customer ho...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Auto-refreshed data tables

    It would be very useful to have the data from data connections being refreshed automatically when the data has changed in the data sources and to have the refreshed data being reflected in data tables and visualization in Spotfire.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration
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