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    Load all tabs of an Excel file at once

    When importing an Excel file, provide the possibility to load all tabs into different data tables in one step
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Wildcard or partial string matches for Data on Demand

    I'm trying to work with Data on Demand with "string" type fields. We have a large database of error logs, and are trying to search through the log text to find mentions of a specific substring that can appear in slightly different places within th...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Google BigQuery API Timeout after 10 seconds

    We have run into an issue which will stop us to develop any valuable datasets in Spotfire. So the situation is the following: When I run a query based on a table definition Spotfire kicks out a bigquery#table job which runs fine with no issues Whe...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Support impersonation in Data Connections via WebPlayer

    As per case 02092109 we understand that what is no problem with Data Connections + fat client, Information Links + fat client and Information Links + WebPlayer, is not supported for Data Connections + WebPlayer. If the solution to https://ideas.ti...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Multi-factor authentication to connect to Azure database

    Trying to connect to Azure SQL DB (using Active Directory - Password), but every time trying to connect to the DB via Spotfire gets the error : ERROR MESSAGE:Cannot connect to '<servername>.database.windows.net'.System.AggregateException: On...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Support scalar stored procedures

    Currently a stored procedure needs to return a table with at least one column in order for Spotfire to create the stored procedure element in Information designer. In Databases like Snowflake, we can have stored procs that only return a scalar val...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

    Oracle databases with high number of schemas and tables, the loading time is very, very long and times out some time.

    We have slow performance with some DB tools, which need long time to query Oracle data dictionary and that adding an Oracle hint /*+ RULE */ significantly speeded up e.g. SELECT /*+ RULE */ * from ALL_TAB_COLUMNS. Please provide the fix for this s...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Improve cube functionality in Spotfire

    There is a lot of potential for improvements with using cubes in Spotfire. Here are some functions that I would like to see: Ability to use on-demand with cubes Cube dimensions to allow data types other than String (like Dates) Ability to "Limit d...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Support optional prompts in data connections

    Information links allow for both optional and mandatory prompts but data connections seem to only support mandatory ones. This means you cannot have a data connection which serves multiple uses cases where one user would like to filter data by a d...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Likely to implement

    Better integration and usability features for Admin Tools

    The Analyst client, Information Designer, and Administration Tools should be better integrated. There needs to be more productivity featured added. Here are some examples of features that would make authoring and troubleshooting much easier and le...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 1 Future Consideration
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