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    TimeSpan format in Infomation link

    The TimeSpan format is the only one that permit user to do some agregation on Time (written hh:mm:ss). You can choose it if you upload a file, but you can't choose it when creating an information link. So it is impossible to give the user (Busines...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Display Source Data table name when selecting a dimension in data table panel.

    We have a data connection with large no. of tables(30+) and columns (200+). When selecting the dimension from the list it is not easy to know which source data table it belongs to. The mouse hover displays the spotfire data table name, but adding ...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Data Refresh UI control

    Improving the refresh experience from UI It maybe look a small thing, but - when I build an analytics application designed to be consumed from the web,- and when the analysis includes several data sources, that need to be refreshed by the end use...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Spotfire connection to Okera data source.

    Allow Spotife client connect to Okera data source (https://www.okera.com/) using Presto driver thru Information Link. Create template for Okera data source.
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Unlikely to implement

    Disable Data Source

    I would like the ability to disable Data Sources. When someone attempts to access an Information Link that uses a disabled Data Source, the user would get a message that the Data Source is disabled. This would be useful when there is a planned out...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Allow non-required prompt on Spotfire 7.6

    Currently, user can only select Min selections = 1 when defining prompting on data connection. It will be nice if there is an option to make the prompt not required for user to enter/select a value.
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire provide a connector to Flink's live data stream

    Spotfire currently can connects to the StreamBase LiveView that Tibco's own live streaming provider, via a specific Connector. It would be nice if spotfire could also connect to open source live streaming providers such as Flink to embrace the ope...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Prompt Dialog Box Modification in Spotfire Webplayer/Client

    Currently the wordings in Prompt are based on the column selected and the rest are displayed by default. By being able to alter the content of the prompt we can highlight important inputs or educate the user before selection or input of data is pr...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    union multiple text files as one datatable, searh files by wildcard , extension,etc

    Many customers have data exported from devices , these data are stored in text files with different date, time, etc and all have the same column structure. Customers want to union all these text files as one datatable by specify folder, or search ...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Support for chinese characters, using a non 8bit character encoding on the database.

    The customer wants to be able to show chinese characters in the Professional client, for a datasource set up in IS on a database server with non 8bit encoding. (US7ASCII)
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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