Skip to Main Content
Spotfire Ideas Portal
ADD A NEW IDEA

Data Management

Showing 290

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...
almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Capability to apply "TRIM" to multiple columns simultaneously

It would be useful to have a transformation that would apply the "TRIM" function to multiple columns at the same time. This is useful because when joining data tables, the text of the columns must match exactly. Therefore, TRIM is often applied to...
about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Add a Licence to allow saving a DXP with Stored data

We have users working with very large datasets and we wish to stop them being able to save these files to the Spotfire library with the data stored in the dxp file
over 5 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...
over 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 chang...
over 7 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...
almost 6 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.
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

use already loaded data for report level joins

When using Report joins to add columns, if the joining table is already loaded why can this not be used to provide the extra columns rather than load the table again.
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

"Undefined" Data type in document properties on DXP

Is it possible to create "Undefined" data type document property in DXP as it is available in Information designer on "Parameters" section. Use: 1.If Spotfire can replace the parameters in information link as is for example with no string formatti...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 5 Future Consideration