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    Add sort by date option for search results to open file

    You can sort by date when browsing the library. Add this to search results. Often the most recent one is the one you want, and you might as well add sort by last modifier as well. Can't tell you how many times I hit this lack of capability and spe...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Library 1 Future Consideration

    Facilitate easier changing of data types in the Information Designer

    TIBCO needs to change the Information Designer and make it easier to make mass changes to data types. Currently, this has to be done one by one, column by column. There are functions that allow quicker changes through transformations or the data p...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 4 Future Consideration

    remove local file results from library file open dialog search

    When I select "Spotfire Library" from the file open flyout, then type in a file name to search on, I get results from the file system. This is not expected, since I am searching the Library not the file system. This is confusing and many times I e...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    allow to customize bind mounts for TERR/Python/R service engine container

    Customer wants to read / write files on host OS or NAS shared folder from TERR/Python/R data functions when TERR/Python/R service is configured to use container for engine process. So to do this we need to add more bind mounts to the container. ak...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Needs Info

    allow set OR for multiple prompts in information link / data connection

    Please allow end user to set OR for multiple prompts in information link / data connection, currently all prompts are concatenated with AND only.
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    A global API to force synchronous data-function execution

    The default behavior for data-functions is to run asynchronously. In some cases, we need to force the data functions in an analysis to run synchronously. We truly need a global flag that can be set via API to force all data functions in the analys...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    TIBCO Spotfire Connector for Hortonworks- Specify YARN queue for Hive queries

    Currently there is no way to specify the yarn queue that should be used to run Hive queries. So all queries from Spotfire are run in the default queue. Hortonworks ODBC driver enables this in HTTP Options by specifying it in Custom HTTP Headers......
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Identifying Datatypes importing .csv file.

    If columns in .csv file have empty cells, they are identified as "String" automatically when the first 101 cells are empty (or null), and any other value e.g a real value after that cell Spotfire will still consider the data type "String" while it...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    In-DXP display of file location for current .dxp

    When opening a .dxp in an Analyst client, there's currently no way for users to see its file path via the GUI. This creates a quandary when saving the file under the same filename - e.g., unintentional overwrite. Programmatically, this can be done...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Columns in tables: technical name and description

    Changing columns name is sometimes painful. Those included in expression or document properties get messy.
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration
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