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    Fully Editable Data Tables

    One is able to go through a wide variety of steps to build a data table. These include: choosing data sources, insert rows, columns, transformations, adding source of file column (during insert rows) etc etc... They should all be editable! Sometim...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    no need to have the removal message of the credentials timeout in the login dialog of data sources

    If a developer is using "User authentication", it is expected to get the login dialog along with the removal time message depending on the credentials timeout mentioned.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Ability to output parameter value as-is without single or double quotes

    Check the following use cases of that scenario: Very often template developers need ability to add custom-built expressions to queries in FROM, WHERE and ORDER BY parts. Multi-tenancy for templates: one set of template/IL/DS can be used for diff...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Let us reference variables with proper names, not variable numbers

    One of the first things on my wish list is to allow us to use variable names to reference variables. Using variable numbers (v1, v2 ...) for reference is a very poor design to be honest, and you won't find this design in comparable products like S...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 3 Already exists

    Import data from internet

    It would be great if Spotfire could import a data table for the internet.; functionality that is similar to what is possible in Microsoft Excel or Power BI
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Connector for Apache Kylin

    Spotfire should provide better support for Apache Kylin: http://kylin.apache.org/ At the moment, only a native ODBC connection is possible, where "keep data external" is not an option. As Kylin is a SQL based big data caching engine, "import data"...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Add "Microsoft Studio" type of feature to browse a database's tables or views and see content and build query; this way data discovery is easier

    In a startup company or when you are new toa company's data sources, "finding" valuable data is important and a lot of work. Today I use MS Studio to browse tables and views and build my queries; and then copy them to Spotfire, I'd like to do at l...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Already exists

    Information Designer should be able to create ROLAP models

    In IBM Cognos Framework Manager, it is possible to design ROLAP models that behave like a cube to the end user. With the introduction of columnar databases like DB2 BLU or Cloudera Impala, the speed is there to support on request aggregations. The...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Display a more user-friendly message when error is encountered during stored procedure execution

    We used stored procedures to pass data to Spotfire. This should alleviate heavy data access from our server and to isolate the tables from our users. However, when error is encountered using this approach Spotfire returns a series of cryptic error...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Limit numbers of data loaded in analyst if using information links (TS-41016)

    At the moment it is not possible to limit number of rows loaded in Spotfire analyst if Information link is used.This cause the unusability of analyst in case of large number of data coming from several different table (if not duplicating every tim...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration
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