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Data Management

    Programmatic access to and creation of data connections

    Workflows in our non-Spotfire application generate result data sets in the form of database views. Once created, we have a need to share these views with Spotfire users and analysis files. The workflow need to programmatically define Spotfire data...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Enable global/local config to set the default formatting for Data Type

    Scenario Data Table with a date-type column, formatted as YYYY-MM-DD - e.g., 2023-06-20. Goal Convert the date to string, with format retained. Current State Two-step workaround: 1. Convert Date format to YYYY-MM-DD via Data > Column property. ...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Allow ordering of columns in a data table via the column properties window

    I would like the ability to manually configure the order of how the columns are shown in the column properties window for a data table. This way if I make a calculated column at a later date that should be grouped with a particular column from ear...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Data On Demand - Dynamically Select Columns

    We have data sets with large number of data columns and in some cases the user is only interested in a small number of columns. I would like to be able to let them pick the columns and then load a much smaller data set only including those columns...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Rename Document Property

    This is useful on a few fronts. If I can rename a document property, I don't have to spend unnecessary time creating another one with all the same settings, especially if I'm trying to rename a multi-list property If I can rename a document prope...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Multiple Unpivot Transformations in One Pass

    Sometimes, there might be a data table where certain columns come in pairings. For instance, if I have a scaled score in 3 subjects for a student, and then I have a percentile rank for the same 3 subjects for a student, the data is likely to come ...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Option to release temporary data from memory when using "Add Rows" and "Add Columns" operation.

    At this time, when using "Add Rows" and "Add Columns" operation, memory consumption becomes much larger than total of each data source. For example, four data sources with 1000 rows each are merged in one datatable with "Add Rows" operations, bel...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    add an option to not show "Missing File" dialog if data source's loading setting is set as "New data when possible" on Analyst

    Please add an option to not show "Missing File" dialog (go on loading embedded data without asking) if data source's loading setting is set as "New data when possible" on Analyst, preferable a data table/data source level setting (Data canvas), an...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Support extremely wide data sets

    Spotfire is excellent when working with wide datasets that can contain thousands or even tens of thousands of columns. In some situations, datasets can be extremely wide with millions of columns, which sometimes causes performance and UX issues. I...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Better Logic / Control over Column Name Changes

    Hello, I've recently had a support case (Case#2463638) about unwanted column name changes when using the "add rows" feature in combining data sets. In discussions around that case, we documented some inconsistencies around column name changes that...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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