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    XML Escape/Unescape Functions

    In order to facilitate interaction with XML based data sources (for example, REST endpoints returning XML data), it would be beneficial for TDV to have built-in functions for escaping, and unescaping, XML data. Currently, there is no functionality...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Will not implement

    Filter before Procedure Join

    We are increasing the use of Web Services, thus more procedures. It is very common for us to join a web service to a relational table, however the procedure join is executed for every row. Is it possible to update the query engine to apply a filte...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 0 Will not implement

    MacOS ODBC Client Drivers

    Is it possible to have macOS client drivers? Our company is increasing its use for apple products and we need the ability to support all our customers. -Chris
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / JDBC / ODBC / ADO 0 Future Consideration

    Adding Preferences for table

    mydata is many column. they have many scale like 9.123456789. I always make table visualization. spotfire table visualization is displayed 9.12. I always change columns properties scale. this work is every time. it is so hard. I would like to cha...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Full Screen for all Interfaces

    Hi, I sometimes have difficulty because I tend towards long and descriptive column names and sometimes they are not visible in the user interface provided. It would be nice to make everything expandable to a full screen. Attached is an example fr...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Function to specify the custom column property values when creating the calculated column

    Hi supporter, Properties of calculated column come from it's source column. Pls, refer to the attached image.It's a general problem, and affect the user's data operation. So, we need a function help user to update properties of calculated columns(...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    add expiry date to reports and automations

    In order to have a more easy cleanup of both scheduled reports and reports in general an expiry date would help to make sure administrators can see which schedules and reports are legible for deletion.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 0 Future Consideration

    move "Register data functions" to Data menu (spotfire X)

    move "Register data functions" to Data menu, just like "Manager data connections" and "Information designer".
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Add ability to programmatically determine what objects are included in a cache policy.

    Using a policy has exponentially reduced the time to complete the full cache refresh (from ~ 3 hours to just over 1 hour). However, there is no way to determine which views/objects have been added to a policy, thus managing the cache refresh proce...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 0 Future Consideration

    add option to turn off automatic column categorization (NUMBERS, CATEGORIES)

    When loading csv file into Analyst, some columns are categorized as "CATEGORIES" automatically even its data type is numeric (Integer, Real, etc.). As far as I know, these columns all have names ending with "mode" or "type", etc. Generally, if col...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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