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    Allow Node Labeling in Data Canvas

    Part of code documentation is following the sequence of logic used to build a data table. While calculated expressions support double-slash comments, not every node requires a calculated expression. Being able to add a comment / annotation to the ...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management / User Experience 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 8 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...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 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 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 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...
    about 9 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...
    almost 7 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...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 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 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 5 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
    about 7 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 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration
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