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    Disable Data Source

    I would like the ability to disable Data Sources. When someone attempts to access an Information Link that uses a disabled Data Source, the user would get a message that the Data Source is disabled. This would be useful when there is a planned out...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Allow non-required prompt on Spotfire 7.6

    Currently, user can only select Min selections = 1 when defining prompting on data connection. It will be nice if there is an option to make the prompt not required for user to enter/select a value.
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire provide a connector to Flink's live data stream

    Spotfire currently can connects to the StreamBase LiveView that Tibco's own live streaming provider, via a specific Connector. It would be nice if spotfire could also connect to open source live streaming providers such as Flink to embrace the ope...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Prompt Dialog Box Modification in Spotfire Webplayer/Client

    Currently the wordings in Prompt are based on the column selected and the rest are displayed by default. By being able to alter the content of the prompt we can highlight important inputs or educate the user before selection or input of data is pr...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    union multiple text files as one datatable, searh files by wildcard , extension,etc

    Many customers have data exported from devices , these data are stored in text files with different date, time, etc and all have the same column structure. Customers want to union all these text files as one datatable by specify folder, or search ...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    The Report Template “Print” option does not allow for setting Printer preferences

    The Report Template “Print” option does not render the executed report directly in Statistica desktop. Instead, it sends the report straight to the default printer, bypassing any user preferences set in their session. The user does not have the ab...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 To be Reviewed

    Support for chinese characters, using a non 8bit character encoding on the database.

    The customer wants to be able to show chinese characters in the Professional client, for a datasource set up in IS on a database server with non 8bit encoding. (US7ASCII)
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Document how to Prompt for User Authentication on Information Designer JDBC Data Source with Kerberos Authentication.

    As report developer, I would like instructions/documentation on how to enable user credentials prompt on information designer data sources configured to use Kerberos authentication.This is needed for cases when the Web Player Server uses Kerberos ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Generate only ANSI-92 SQL, rather than ANSI-89 SQL and then only ANSI-92 SQL for outer joins.

    We are connecting to a new product Teiid to allow data virtualisation across data sources. This uses ANSI-92 as default and best practice, and hints for performance tuning across databases will not work if the SQL is written in ANSI-89. ANSI-89 is...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire should automatically detect the entity relations based on the metadata.

    *Description* > Currently there is an option to manually map the relations but it would be much simpler if Spotfire could read them directly from the endpoint's metadata. > Spotfire should have ability to automatically detect the entity rela...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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