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Ability to replace empty cells by a value in PIVOT transformation

When pivoting tall tables to make them wide, we end up with lots of empty cells that correspond to combinations that do not exist in the original tall data set. It is now very difficult to replace these empty values by a valid value (like 0) ... s...
about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Define tables as staging or reporting

Not all tables that are created in a Spotfire analysis are there for reporting purposes. Some tables are only for transforming data or loading data. The content of these tables is in the end, when all the loading, calculating and transforming is d...
almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 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 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Warning when Right or Left Join adds rows to data table

I think it would be great if Spotfire would warn me when an insert column operation will add rows to the data. Sometimes this is intended, but other times, it is because there is a problem in the data quality. In my use case, adding rows is usuall...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Casing clean-up recommendation

Add a recommendation to the data panel to clean up casing differences in a column similar to the existing spaces clean up recommendation. Display the recommendation when a column contains values that differ only in casing. When selected, add a tra...
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

Quickly transform data using Python or R

The Spotfire Data Canvas should support transforming data with Python or R code that's added directly to the data canvas pipeline. With a couple of clicks you should be able to paste your Python or R code directly into a new data function which is...
almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Show Calculated Columns Precedents and Dependents

When making several calculated columns that refer to other columns it would be useful to see a branch out of all the columns that go into a calculated column. Also, the ability to see the columns that are dependent on the calculated column would h...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Force "always new data vs. stored data" selection on save

When working with Spotfire *.dxp file cooperatively, the collaboration is very often hampered by the fact, that Spotfire tends to save *.dxp files as “linked”=”Always new data” by default. That happens in particular when: Spotfire is used when st...
about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Collaboration / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

Loading Selected Columns from large files

Currently, if you have a very large file with several worksheets and columns within those worksheets Spotfire must read every column in that file even if you're only using a handful of columns. This makes download and refresh times very long compa...
about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

Provide useful information on why refresh is disabled, when this is disabled for a data table, so that the developer knows how to resolve his or her issue.

When and if the refresh button is disabled, we should clearly list why this is the case. Be it circular dependencies, frozen columns, or anything else. As it is now it is almost impossible for a report developer to find the cause by themselves. At...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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