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    Add possibility to disable/enable transformations in data canvas

    IN data canvas, you can see all the transformation steps on the data, you can edit and delete them. In many cases, when trying things out, during development and similar, you may want to temporarily disable the step(s) and enable these later again.
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

    Match columns dialog: make it sorted / sortable

    Dear Supporters, please make the entries in the match columns dialog box sorted or at least sortable. Regards,
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 6 Future Consideration

    Support for Kafka adapter in TDV

    We would like you to add support for a Kafka adapter in TDV to make it possible to access live Kafka data, in avro format, as a datasource. We currently have mulitple Kafka streams storing data in avro format and such an adapter would enable us ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 1 Future Consideration

    Allow customization of the CREATE TABLE DDL for cache creation

    Allow a developer to customize the CREATE TABLE DDL when creating cache tables so that specific clauses for logging, distributed by, tpartitioning or storage parameters can be added to the CREATE statement. This could be handed edited by the devel...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 1 Future Consideration

    Determine column types using type information in data set rather than data values

    Spotfire infers column types by examining the values in (the first 1000) rows of the data set being loaded. This generally works well but makes mistakes often enough that manual correction becomes laborious. A case in point is when real-valued dat...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Event Based Scheduling (Trigger from a file or schedule)

    Other BI tools that we use have the concept of event based scheduling. So in addition to a schedule firing at a given time/day and frequency the schedule only fires if a designated trigger file can be found or another schedule that this schedule i...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 4 Future Consideration

    Files and Data... > Recommended should show data in analysis as well as recent data

    Hello, Data already loaded in the analysis is "Recent data". It should therefore be included in the "Recommended" flyout with the Recent data. It should not be "Other". "Other' is a list of external connectors - data in analysis does not fit there...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Add support for Presto as a data source to TDV

    TDV needs an adapter for Prestodb.io. This idea is for simple data source access, not caching or data ship. If this is of interest to you, please indicate in the comments the use case and level of support you need, i.e., not only data source but c...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 2 Unlikely to implement

    Do cache refresh in push down where possible

    In case the cache table is in the same database as all the other tables contributing to the cache, the cache refresh should run in full push down. This instead of selecting and bringing all the data from the database to the TDV server and then sen...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 5 Already exists

    limit rows with "OR" operations of "limit by marking" and "limit by expression"

    There's two options to limit table rows, one is "limit by marking", the other is "limit by expression". When setting both, they work together as "AND". We ask to be able to make them work together as "OR"
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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