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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 4 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Allow relinking of an existing information link to a different data source / database / table

I would like the ability to relink an existing information link to a new data source table when the table is exactly the same as the original. Currently, one would need to create a new information link or add the columns from the new table in the ...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 9 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 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

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 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 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
3 months ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Add CLOB data type to Spotfire's supported data types

Ensuring future extensibility: CLOB is a common data type, and supporting it will enable your product to address a wider variety of use cases. More efficient data processing: Support for CLOB data types makes it easier to perform complex string op...
3 months ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 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 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

Spotfire Connector to Power BI XMLA EndPoints

Our organization uses a lot of Spotfire but there are other BI Tools in use, particularly Power BI. Our Spotfire teams of late have been getting asked to connect to what are referred to as "XMLA Endpoints". Power BI workspaces use an "XMLA endpoin...
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Spotfire client opens 5 connections to database when using Oracle data connectors, and hold them till closing the client

When we use a data connection to retrieve data from an Oracle database, the Spotfire client opens 5 connections to the database with each usage. Those connections remain open even after you close the template using File > Close. The only way to...
almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 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 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration