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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

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

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...
almost 2 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...
almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

Possibility to re-order prompt sequence

To be able to support multiple use-cases with the same template and ultimately same info links it would be required to enable the end user to dynamically re-arrange the prompting sequence. Say the default sequence is prompting for a time range fir...
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Information Services 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

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 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 6 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

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

Support Commen Table Expression (WITH) in data connection custom query

Commen Table Expresion (CTE) is currently not supported in the custom query. This would allow users to use temporary result set within the execution scope. We usually handle this with a store procedure, but its an issue on databases we are not all...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 6 Future Consideration