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    Spotfire Hive connector, set hive execution engine=spark

    Hi, We have a Hadoop big data cluster with Map Reduce as the default Hive execution engine. It is key for us to be able in Spotfire Hive Connector to change the Hive execution engine (set hive.execution.engine=spark). Kind Regards
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Amazon Redshift connector OAuth support

    The Amazon Redshift connector should support Open ID Connect / OAuth2 as authentication / authorization option. If I'm logged into Spotfire using OIDC with a shared identity provider I expect SSO to Amazon Redshift.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Planning to implement

    Add Data Table from Data Connection in Library - Should not default to select all tables in connection

    Currently, when you add a data table from a Data Connection In A Library, the window opens up and all tables within the connection are selected by default. There is no "deselect all" option so it's the chore of unchecking them one-by-one. I have q...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Better JSON parsing support

    When you get JSON strings and you need to extract a few fields to table format for Spotfire consumption it would be nice having an efficient and easy to use parser to do this out of the box. Something like: JSONGetField( JSONString, ”afieldname” ...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Import fixed width data tables into Spotfire

    Sometimes source data tables are in the format of fixed width, no delimiter being used. Below is an example. Each field has a fixed width of 3 characters, but no delimiter. a def gh abc def g ab de ghi Importing data like this into Spotfire, there...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Automatically suggest joins in Information Link.

    Spotfire should automatically suggest joins, when columns from different tables are added to the Information Link. We want Information Designer to be smart enough to suggest the joins already created, that are required on the Information Link, whe...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Depivot in Information Link

    It should be possible to do a depivot in an Information Link.
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Data Type of Column that starts as Int but later contains strings doesn't read the strings

    Hi, In the situation where a column in an excel file contains strings and integers but starts with integers, the data type of the column read into Spotfire is integer. It can't be changed from within Spotfire to read string and read in the string ...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    import txt files with fix size columns

    Spotfire import txt file with delimiters only, if you have a file with fix columns size you need to transform it before. I know this file format is not traditionnal but when it is needed I use another tool to change the format
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    SharePoint Online connector should be able to load Likes and Star Ratings from lists

    With SharePoint Lists you can set up rating with voting resp. star rating. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/add-a-ratings-feature-to-your-library-5901fcfd-19ca-4f27-a65f-284654298552 Theses number of likes or average of star rating are n...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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