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    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

    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

    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

    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 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

    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...
    over 5 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...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    PI Connector to Spotfire

    PI Connector to Spotfire is not very useful. It hangs when a larger data set is selected and the connector does not allow for multiple queries at the same time. The PI connector needs to be more like the one that is on the Spotfire Streaming platform
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Planning 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...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration
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