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Depivot in Information Link

It should be possible to do a depivot in an Information Link.
over 7 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 ...
over 7 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
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Provide a popup when folders are dragged/dropped/moved

It is too easy to accidentally drag and drop a folder to a new location. It would be nice to be prompted along the lines of -- do you really want to move this? -- before you can drag/drop a folder.
almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

Possibility to export validation results

Besides validating single information model elements, the Information Modeler also allows to validate complete folders. As a result Information Modeler displays a list of issues detected. When validating folders this list may contain quite a numbe...
almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Control Order for data table loading

I have not seen an idea requested or the functionality in Spotfire, but feel free to correct me if the functionality exists. My dashboard is populated using a series of Information Links and Data Connectors. One of my data connectors is dependent ...
almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Show name of data table being processed in open file progress dialog when opening an analysis

Most of my analysis files use a lot of different data sources. Some take a long time to load - not a problem as I run them once a day. But it would be very nice to see at which data table he's working on instead of just "Opening connection to data...
almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

Exclusionary Filters/Prompts for Data Sources

It is already possibility to filter or provide prompting when loading data from an information link or even from other database sources. However, these filters are limited to POSITIVE matches (single select, range, multi-select, etc). It would be...
almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

limit the number of values passed to on demand conditions

Customer wants to limit the number of values passed to on demand conditions globally, i.e. set it on server side or in data source templates or as information link configurations, similar function like "Number of identifiers to limit data loading ...
about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Script/ shortcut-button to rebuild spotfire using data table properties "Source information" (can edit this table to remove old column etc.)

this is to lessen re-creating file following the data table properties source information, currently using this as reference by re-creating a damage file, no data on table due to missing column reference file but really long to do, especially for ...
about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration