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Open session commands (pre post statements) for data connections

We have many data sources that implement row level security using features such as Oracle’s VPD. This relies on the ability for Spotfire to provide the end user identity whenever running SQL on the database - which is easily achieved using the Ope...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 6 Future Consideration

Spotfire Analyst - Open Information Designer to edit selected Information Link from Data canvas

With a right-click on the icon for the Information Link within the Data canvas, and/or with a button (see attached modified screenshot), the Information Designer would open for editing the selected Information Link. This would improve a lot the wo...
over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 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 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 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 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Likely to implement

Make the Information Designer remember where I last was!

100 times a day. Open Information Designer, navigate complex folder hierarchy, change something...close Information Designer. 2 minutes later, open Information Designer...all the folders are collapsed again, start from scratch navigating the folde...
about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Allow SQL queries to select columns based on Spotfire input

Certain data lake solutions are optimized for column access (e.g. Google's BigQuery). Trying to access a column in BQ using Spotfire fails because a string literal is the only option for the variable. If a second variable option was available that...
over 3 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...
over 5 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...
about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

Analyze data connection and custom queries using Application Profiler

We are using Spotfire Application Profiler to analyze and quality control in bulk all Spotfire dashboards within a certain library folder and this is very powerful and useful. One of the most important topics is to be able to analyze the data conn...
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

Apply the TableVisualizationExternalRowLimit setting at the report level.

TableVisualizationExternalRowLimit now could setting for in‑database (IN‑DB)could it set to 1. all datasource2.set to the visualization which needs such a limitation or the limitation is different, higher or lower, in one report, e.g. could be A v...
4 months ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Visualization 0 Future Consideration