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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

Display Row Counts instead of Data Size while loading Information Links in Spotfire Analyst

Previous versions (up to v7.5) of Spotfire Analyst had display of row numbers while loading Information Links in display window. Spotfire 7.11 shows loading of data in terms of data size being processed. This is not beneficial as Developer does no...
about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

Log entry for which user used "Replace Value" function

Hi, Recent version of Spotfire 7.9 came with a cool feature, enabling users to replace values on table views. Data Panel source view has an entry for this type of transformation but it does not have any information about which user did the cha...
about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

eliminate the difference in file paths between Web Player on Windows and Linux

It turns out lots of our customer are using data linked from files located in shared folder in a file server. So this difference between Web Player on Windows and Linux is critical for them to migrate to Linux (in order to utilize docker & con...
almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

Show Column Name changes made in Data Panel in the Data Canvas

If the name of a column is changed from the data panel, rather than as a transformation there is no record of this in the Data Canvas view so it is often hard to track why a column apperas to disappear from a data table It would be helpful to incl...
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 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...
almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Monitoring of Row Joins

It would be great be able to see what is happening to the table when rows and columns are being added. I would like to see the number of rows/columns before and after the join to be able to check for poor joining that results in expanding the tabl...
over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

When adding a datatable in 10.1 the default setting should be to add as new data table not add to existing data table

Having the ability to append data to existing data tables is nice but it shouldn't be the default setting as the majority of the time when you are adding you want to add as new not append to another table.
over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

add functionality to replace values on multiple-selected rows.

Please add functionality to replace values on all multiple-selected rows. Currently user has to replace the value on each row 1 by 1, they want to replace all values in all selected rows at once.
almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Apply rules to multiple columns in one step

E.g. missing data; change types of multiple columns all at once
almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management / User Experience 0 Future Consideration