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    Add Row Count to Data Canvas

    After replacing a data source and adding columns/rows, I often check the number of rows in the resulting data table to make sure it worked correctly. Since a lot of these functions are now available in the Data Canvas, it would be nice to display ...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    need storage persist option for replacing data tables

    Whenever I replace a data table the storage method always resets to "always new data". Can the previous setting be preserved across replacement? It's extra step to reset to the previous setting (if I can recall what it was), and is quite annoying....
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Check data (during load) for quality and changes in column values

    Users appreciate Spotfire’s ability to match column name changes during data reloading. This ideas proposes the ability for Spotfire to check data (during load) for quality and changes in column values (especially when metadata changes or when dat...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Another problem with data loading in 10.3 - defaults to add rows to table when tables are different!

    I load a table into 10.3 from xlsx file. I load the same table, again, but in the xlsx load dialog, I remove the final two columns from the load by unchecking their checkbox in the xlsx load dialog. Spotfire tries to add rows to the existing table...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Matching column window of ExensioYield is not really functional while it's so frequent for table operations.

    Hi Tibco supporter, Would you help to make Matching column window of ExensioYield more conenient, pls? We heard it's basic functions come from Tibco. In semiconduct testing business, we do have >2000 columns which have >60 char names i...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    Setting for Case sensitivity

    Currently Spotifire is Case Sensitive which makes aggregations at certain level harder to manage. While you can do all sorts of string manipulation it would be nice to have a setting to turn on/off case sensitivity. For example , if you aggregate ...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Option to change default data loading method

    Data loading currently defaults to “Always New Data” Can we change the default to “New Data When Possible”?
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Pre-populate data table column descriptions from data catalog

    Spotfire 12.4 introduced a new feature allowing authors to apply descriptions to data table columns manually in the data analysis flyout. While this is great, and can be a tool for documenting projects, the fact that you have to do this in each in...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Data Canvas UX: Column datatype formatting inside Data Canvas

    See attachment The Data Canvas is a great place to manage, wrangle, cleanse, and enrich data. However, the options for formatting column data types are not found within it. You must leave the canvas and go to the Data Panel column handler then s...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    Visualization data as data table in Spotfire

    Often we need access to the aggregated data from a visualization. E.g. for an external tool; or for reporting; or for input to a data function. We should have the ability to have the aggregated (plot) data available as a data table in Spotfire. It...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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