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    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 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...
    about 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...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Embed only filtered rows

    We would like the ability to embed only filtered rows. This option is currently available when exporting data, but not for embedding. This would allow authors to save and share analyses built from all-encompassing information links with authors wh...
    almost 10 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 7 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 7 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.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Searchable data canvas

    Add functionality to search/query the data canvas (possible with AI). Examples: "Where does column X come from. " Result would be a a list of all the transformation from raw data source till the output.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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