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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 5 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 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...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Remove the requirement for a Metadata URL when configuring the OAuth2 client

When configuring an OAuth2 client in the Spotfire server config GUI, the dialogue will not close unless a Metadata URL is entered. It is incorrect to require this since the OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework (RFC 6749) does not require a metadata U...
12 months 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...
almost 4 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...
almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Likely to implement

Create Connection For SAP Datashpere

SAP's datasphere is their future cloud platform for reporting and analytics. Having a HANA connection is great for on premise environments, but their future is cloud based and Spotfire does not currently have a connection that would allow reportin...
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 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...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 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...
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 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...
almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

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...
almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 1 Future Consideration