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    Store calculated columns in data connections

    If you have a lot of calculated columns in your analysis file, it's frustrating that the only way to share these is by duplicating the analysis file. If they could be stored in data connections these could be reused across multiple dashboards. The...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Search and locate connections based on guid

    Connection to table shows connection name and not GUID. Name is not necessarily unique Source Properties on tables built from a connection does have GUID. This makes reverse trace harder. Searching on NAME is slow and may return duplicates or si...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    All connectors should be available in the web clients' flyout

    I expect all connectors to be available in Business Author. Authoring connections to my data sources is the only reason for me to download the Spotfire Windows client.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    DATE datatype must be available in Cloudera Hive native data connector

    DATE datatype is not available in Cloudera Hive native data connector though the DATE datatype is supported in HDI. So, when migrating from HDI to Cloudera HIVE, we are facing issues as we need to convert all the DATE datatype from DATE to TIMESTA...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Allow virtual columns to support IN clauses/multiple value filtering

    We have customers using virtual columns in an SQL view, e.g: Select *, {DECLARE p_postdate date } p_postdate from table where post_date=p_postdate This functionality needs to be expanded to support multiple values pf p_postdate (i.e, an IN claus...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / sql support 0 Future Consideration

    Publish in the library a data connection to a file

    This would provide a shortcut in the library to a file path somewhere on a shared drive, rather than authors having to "open file" and navigate to a complex network location..
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    option to make sure Analyst always use bundled ADO.NET driver for TDV

    Please add option to make sure Analyst always use bundled ADO.NET driver for TDV when loading data via TDV connector, in order to avoid unintended / unsupported version of driver being used. Currently if ADO.NET driver for TDV is installed to the ...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Add capability to access graph DBs / triple stores

    e.g. by allowing accessing these via SPARQL
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Be able to use Custom Connectors on Spotfire Cloud

    One of the most powerful features of Spotfire are the connectors. Custom Connectors are not available for Tibco Cloud users so they can't use this functionality. Custom connectors should be installable for Tibco Cloud users
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Allow the import of TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE datatype from Oracle database

    Using Add Data tables option , I am trying to add Oracle 12 DB table but one Timestamp table field having datatype as "TIMESTAMP (3) WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE" is not visiable / showing up in Spotfire UI This is apparently not supported and it would be...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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