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    Scrape tables from webpages

    Create a new Data Source type for "Website" that will scrape data from within any tables. I believe this should be fairly simple by parsing the html <table> tags.
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Add filter to the join interface to limit the rows of one of the column elements in the join table

    I recently wanted to join two tables via information links. However, what I really needed was a subset of the rows that existed in the data table. Joining the entire data table created a resulting table that was too large to be practical and did n...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Add supported functions for in-db connections to Redshift

    The supported functions for in-db connections to Redshift (https://docs.tibco.com/pub/sfire-analyst/7.12.0/doc/html/en-US/TIB_sfire-analyst_UsersGuide/connectors/amazon-redshift/redshift_supported_functions.htm) are insufficient to perform any use...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Stop adding new empty row or semicolon in UI when editing fields

    Trim ending empty rows and/or semicolon from Connection Initializer, Opens Session Command and Close session command. And, stop automatically adding any new empty row or semicolon in UI when editing any of the fields.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Disable default runtime-query-validation in Information Services

    TIBCO should disable runtime-query-validation for Information Services as the default configuration. The Information Modeler and the Report Developer wants the system to be configured for performance and visibility for issues, when querying data ...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Post-process a data table after it is loaded

    I have the need to post-process a data table after it is loaded, automatically without clicking a button. My scenario is : - spotfire file is loaded and the data is retrieved from various databases - once loaded I need to post-process data as doin...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Change Data Type Transformation holds change for when the column is already that type

    I am loading data tables from excel, where sometimes the columns are real, and sometimes they are integers. I change the data type so that they are always real with a transformation. If the Q01 column is real when I add the transformation, it does...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Monitoring Data Source connections (Spotfire Analyst) for Failure

    Monitoring of data source connections in Spotfire Analyst is critical to the functioning of associated Spotfire reports. If one/few connections are not working due to database outage, then it will be useful to immediately notify End users that rep...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Scheduled refresh of connector data into a file cache

    You should be able to configure in-memory data connections you have stored in the Library to fetch data according to a schedule. Data would be stored in a shared cache on the Spotfire server. Your analysis files that are using the cached data conn...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Use Summary Duration for PI Connector for Interpolated instead of # of Points

    Currently with the PI connector, you have to select number of points when using interpolated. This means you have to calculate how many data points are between a specific time range and you have to change number of points it every time the time ra...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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