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Data Access

Using "Search Expression" for Data Function transforms upon data add

When adding a data set, I can use Transformations> Data Function to apply a Data Function before the data gets brought in as a data table. This is really nice when I want to reduce file size in my DXP by pre-processing my DF on the source data....

over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

Spotfire should connect natively to Google Spanner

Spotfire should connect natively to Google Spanner.

over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Spotfire should be able to load files from Google Cloud Storage

Spotfire should be able to load files from Google Cloud Storage.

over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Ability to hide the login icon on the analysis reports for the end user

Even though I enabled guest anonymous authentication, in the end user dashboard after opening the analysis reports, i am seeing the "Login" button in the top right corner which looks inefficient for those using the site. I was wondering if there i...

over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

One shared server connector cache

In cases of multiple web servers, a data connection can't be cached between web servers. Information links appear to allow caching for all users.

over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Connector drivers should only need to be installed once in a Spotfire topology

Today each driver needs to be manually deployed on each web node server.

over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

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.

over 7 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...

almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

When refresh data table, how to modify only some of the source information

When Edit> Data Table Properties> Refresh Data, I want to fix only one device or one content. It seems to be a lot of time loss because I have to create all new. I want to refresh the data table by modifying only some of the source information.

almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Already exists

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