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    Shift transformations in data canvas

    When analysing data, sometimes many transformations are needed. When using add columns, you may realize that the transformation shouldn't have been done on the original table, but at the very end of the result data table, or vice versa. Then you h...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

    bring back the "reload with prompt" button in spotfire X

    please bring back the "reload with promped" button for linked data tables in the data table properties of spotfire X like it was implemented in Spotfire 7.xx. This option should only be available for linked data tables. It would be good to have a ...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    WebUI: Search Data Catalog by column-level annotations/description

    In the TDV WebUI one can search the data catalog by annotations at the resource-level. In TDV Studio annotations can be added on the column-level as well. These appear in the WebUI on the Columns tab in the Description column. For documenting purp...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data catalog / metadata 1 Future Consideration

    webservice endpoint properties in the endpoint

    Currently, the properties of the endpoints (such as JSON/XML tags and such) are edited and stored in the webservice. This means that either you need to manually alter this after deployment of an endpoint, or you need to deploy the whole webservice...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / deployment 0 Future Consideration

    Data function refresh in scheduled mode

    Data functions in auto refresh mode are executed righ after the full load of a dxp. But when a dxp is scheduled for execution and save of results in SBDF for instance, the scheduler does not wait for the DataFunctions to execute before going to th...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 0 Future Consideration

    Add support for passthrough queries to CData Couchbase driver

    CData for Couchbase supports query passthrough. TDV does not take advantage of this feature. As a result, we have to pull millions of records from the database instead of pulling back an aggregated summary table. Please add this feature to TDV CDa...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / JDBC / ODBC / ADO 0 To be Reviewed

    In Column Properties > Sort Order, add "sort based on ..."

    Add a fourth radio option. If selected we can use an expression to set the sort order based on other column(s) in the same table. e.g. my table has categoryName, categorySequence I would select the new option, and sort expression would simply be [...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Option to explicitly select the columns to include when inserting columns (rather than only exclude columns)

    When inserting columns into a data table within Spotfire, the user selects the column(s) to include in the last window. However, what is actually happening behind the scenes is an Exclude Columns transformation where the columns the user hasn't se...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    I would like to be able to control Studio with a browser.

    I would like to be able to control Studio with a browser.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / access control 0 Likely to implement

    Add "Limit data using expression" functionality to data function input data

    When specifying input data for a data function, I am missing the "Limit data using expression" function. The limit by filtering and/or marking is there - but not the expression? This would really help limit the number of records sent to R for proc...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / Data Management 3 Future Consideration
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