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    bring back the "reload with prompt" button in spotfire X

    please bring back the "reload with promped" button for linked data tables in the data table properties of spotfire X like it was implemented in Spotfire 7.xx. This option should only be available for linked data tables. It would be good to have a ...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Data function refresh in scheduled mode

    Data functions in auto refresh mode are executed righ after the full load of a dxp. But when a dxp is scheduled for execution and save of results in SBDF for instance, the scheduler does not wait for the DataFunctions to execute before going to th...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 0 Future Consideration

    In Column Properties > Sort Order, add "sort based on ..."

    Add a fourth radio option. If selected we can use an expression to set the sort order based on other column(s) in the same table. e.g. my table has categoryName, categorySequence I would select the new option, and sort expression would simply be [...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Option to explicitly select the columns to include when inserting columns (rather than only exclude columns)

    When inserting columns into a data table within Spotfire, the user selects the column(s) to include in the last window. However, what is actually happening behind the scenes is an Exclude Columns transformation where the columns the user hasn't se...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Add "Limit data using expression" functionality to data function input data

    When specifying input data for a data function, I am missing the "Limit data using expression" function. The limit by filtering and/or marking is there - but not the expression? This would really help limit the number of records sent to R for proc...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

    Additional string function where you are able to change the rounding settings

    Belongs to the article https://community.tibco.com/questions/rounding-issue-string-function. If you use a numeric column and convert the result to a string column, there are always only 2 decimals shown. For calculating P values you´ll need 4 dec...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions / Data Management 6 Future Consideration

    Pre-defined DateTime ranges for loading data (on-demand)

    We need to report on data that is filtered on many columns and special DateTime intervals. Information Links are very large so we need to set filters as part of the query that imports data into Spotfire so that only the rows needed by the report a...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Manual refresh to a scheduled report using Automation service job

    A scheduled dashboard starts refresh from 8:30 AM and refreshes every hour until 9:30 PM and we have a dependent data flow which should end at 8:20 AM daily but every Monday its delaying due to data volume and ends between 8:40 to 9:05 AM so I had...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 0 Future Consideration

    make more clear message for errors in calculated column functions.

    I'd like to see clearer error messages. It's hard to tell what kind of error a function error is. It's hard to tell from the message what's wrong and how to fix it. Even if it's written in character count, I have to count it, which is hard to unde...
    10 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Disable/unload/purge/restart files from the scheduled updates page

    If a scheduled updates file hangs it will occupy one slot until the Web Player has been restarted, which is a bad thing to do during production hours. Request(s): 1) Make it possible to cancel/restart a load operation for a file that is currently ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 0 Future Consideration
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