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Static filters in in-database connectors (remove rows)

It should be possible to filter out rows based on an expression as global filter attributes. E.g. CREATED date > sysdate-365 or ROW_NUM<1000001 (Useful when debugging queries that have long run time to load a data subset
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Search by description for tables in a TDV data catalog

The ability to search for tables in a TDV data catalog (from the Files and data flyout) by description/annotation (in addtion to name/title) would make it easier to find tables in cases where the annotation field contains relevant information.
about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Likely to implement

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...
about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

Add Connectivity to Canary Data Historian

As an oil & gas client, we collect millions of data points from field/plant automation points through Cygnet and store data in the Canary data historian - a NoSQL timeseries database. Canary suggests using the ODBC driver to connect to Spotfir...
3 months 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...
over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 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

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...
almost 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...
about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 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 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 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