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Spotfire Analyst - New window for tools / writing expressions etc

We always need to close windows and open them again when it comes to writing custom expressions (within charts or calculating columns) for example, and it blocks the main Spotfire window, not practical. When a dual monitor configuration, no other ...
over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Spotfire Analyst - Fetch and render the Description field from the column items in the Spotfire Library

The understanding of what is displayed in a column is very important. When columns from information links within the Spotfire Library have a description set, it is not possible as per Spotfire 10.3.3 to fetch this information and display it in ana...
over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

make more clear message for errors in calculated column functions.

I'd like to see clearer error messages. It's hard to tell what kind of error a function error is. It's hard to tell from the message what's wrong and how to fix it. Even if it's written in character count, I have to count it, which is hard to unde...
2 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

Individual Load Cancellation in Feature Service Connector

When using the ESRI Feature Service connector, I selected five tables to load simultaneously. One of the tables entered an infinite-loading state, and there was no option to stop only that specific table. The only available action was to cancel th...
2 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

add option to enable datatable color stripe as default

In Document properties, there's an option of "Show a color stripe for related tables". This color stripe is useful when loading multiple datatables, but it's disabled as default. Please add option to enable datatable color stripe as default.
over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

Merge columns even if the data types are different.

When merging columns (data joins), even if the column names are the same, they won't be automatically matched if the data types don't match. When there's a large amount of data, setting each column individually can be time-consuming, so we'd like ...
2 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

Add Sort Column Transformation

Some times, more complex expression containing the Previous function requires that the data table are in certain order, something not possible with actual version of Spotfire. So I suggest a new type of transformation
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

Smart Data Source Optimizer

In many enterprise Spotfire deployments, reports connect to wide tables or views via JDBC or Infolinks, often bringing in 50–200 columns by default—even when only a fraction of these columns are actually used in visualizations, expressions, or scr...
2 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Change default insert columns behavior

The way that the Spotfire insert columns mechanism is built is it builds a list of columns to ignore, rather than a list of columns to insert. For example, let's say you have Table A with column A, B, and C. You insert column A into Table B. Then,...
over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

Make memory consumption of visualizations visible

When working with "big data" it is important to keep memory requirements under control and oftentimes it is necessary to optimize analyses to reduce memory needs. There is actually two main sources driving Spotfire's memory needs: The size of the ...
about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Management 6 Needs Info