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    Support Navigation Properties in OData

    Navigation properties allow to represent semantical links between objects in OData. A link that is technically established as the translation of a foreign key - primary key relation could semantically mean different things. E.g. in banking the acc...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / web services 0 To be Reviewed

    Support for Azure Data Lake Store for read and write capabilities

    TDV needs to be able to read and write files to Azure Data Lake Store. This is Microsoft's cloud version of HDFS that specializes in Big Data Analytical workloads.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data movement / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to copy/edit Data Source Information steps to another spotfire report with same data tables

    Would be helpful if there is a option to copy all the steps that are perform in one data table when we dot Edit > Data Table Properties > Source Information steps to another Spotfire report which has the same data tables
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 4 Future Consideration

    Add transformations to external data tables (and database pushback of these)

    Spotfire lacks one very important feature to make data preparation more useful: basic operations on external tables. Other tools offer this in terms of joins, filters for row and columns, simple calculations, aggregation and similar. All these ope...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Add ability to search inside data sources in information designer

    I'm often working on information links. To add columns in joins, column elements, filters etc. I always have to scroll through the tables in the data source, open them, add the columns... This is time consuming and annoying work. My suggestion is ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Allow contract first for REST/OData

    Contract first design of REST/Odata APIs is common in many enterprises. As SOAP contract first is already supported, Contract first in REST would allow us to receive Openapi 3.0 specifications and link the data virtualization to this exact contrac...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / web services 0 To be Reviewed

    Sort table columns directly in data canvas

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    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Provide a web-based development environment

    Provide a web-based development environment that can be used by developers or end-users to add data sources, build views and publish to external client applications.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / development 1 Future Consideration

    Greater/lesser than Join Types (like SQL)

    When creating a column add (aka join) between tables, it would be amazing to be able to more specifically define the join type rather than only having an '='. If for example you could select the type from =, >, <, >=, <=, etc. then you...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Copy and Paste Transformations From One Data Table to Another Data Table

    When I want to move a transformation (or many transformations) from one data table to another data table due to similar characteristics between tables (or any other reason), it would be easier to move by copy/paste rather than to recreate the same...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration
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