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    Smart Data Source Optimizer

    In many enterprise Spotfire deployments, reports connect to wide tables or views via JDBC or Infolinks, often bringing in 50–200 columns by default—even when only a fraction of these columns are actually used in visualizations, expressions, or scr...
    11 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    More options for easily rearranging table rows and columns

    When dealing with tables, it would be helpful to have greater control over the order of columns and rows. Specifics listed below: allow users to click and drag to rearrange columns and rows as needed add a " move up 1 row" and move down 1 row opti...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Change order of Document Properties in Document Properties dialogue

    Sometimes I'd like to group document properties, for this it would be nice if in the Document Properties dialogue, the properties could be moved up/down to create a custom order.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Recognise dates in strings in ISO 8601 format

    It is common practice to exchange date or date/time information in ISO 8601 format, so it would be helpful if Spotfire automatically recognised strings in this format as dates, and offered the ISO formats in the dropdowns when editing column prope...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    reload on-demand data incrementally

    Customer would like to be able to reload on-demand data incrementally. E.g. if condition A/B/C/D are marked and data are loaded based on that, (1) when changing marking to A/B/C/D/E, only load data E and append to current dataset (2) when removing...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Multiple Data Tables to be reloaded at once / Create "Reloading Groups"

    In analysis with many Data Tables, when you know that one or several Data Tables would take significant time to reload, in cases such as troubleshooting, development (complete the list), you may not want to reload specific Data Tables. The attache...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    Clean up used BCP cache tmp files during the process instead of at the end

    Consider SQL Server or Hyperscale SQL DB or any derivative thereof. Consider a source table(s) with 100 million+ rows that will be cached into a target SQL Server database and use BCP to perform the load operation. Consider that the disk TDV is in...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 0 Future Consideration

    Create a search tool to search through Enterprise workspaces to find the node type in the workspace

    When checking for which workspace use a specific node, for example a Pyhon node, a search feature would help in determing which workspaces contain a specific node. Then these workspaces could be tested with a different python version, for example.
    11 months ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 Future Consideration

    Tag users in Spotfire conversation feature and have the users being notified actively

    when using the Spotfire conversation feature, it would be good to be able to tag users (like @dirk) - when connected to Spotfire server, it should send out a notification to any open client (web and desktop) to the specific user. Maybe would be go...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Collaboration 1 Future Consideration

    Resizable data column properties panel

    The Data Column properties panel was resizable in Spotfire 7.14 which made it easier to see long value labels etc. See below for illustration: Since Spotfire 10.x the properties panel is no longer resizable which makes it harder to see everything ...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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