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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 4 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 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

Combination of filters using and, or, xor, not etc.

In many cases it is useful to have a filter where a row filtering should depend on two columns. An example would be to select all rows with country equal to UK or Year before 2010. This is currently not possible without using a calculated column w...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 4 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 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

Check data (during load) for quality and changes in column values

Users appreciate Spotfire’s ability to match column name changes during data reloading. This ideas proposes the ability for Spotfire to check data (during load) for quality and changes in column values (especially when metadata changes or when dat...
4 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Moveable Transformations in Data Canvas

It would be more user friendly to be able to shift transformations up or down relatively without having to delete and recreate them.
7 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management / User Experience 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 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

Select All / Deselect All in Import Settings

Sometimes the user needs only 4-5 columns in a dataset from a file or database containing hundreds of columns. When importing into Spotfire, the Import Settings menu does not allow the user (in Spotfire X at least) to select all/ deselect all fiel...
about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Greater/lesser than Join Types (like SQL)

When creating a column add (aka join) between tables, it would be amazing to be able to more specifically define the join type rather than only having an '='. If for example you could select the type from =, >, <, >=, <=, etc. then you...
almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Add transformations to external data tables (and database pushback of these)

Spotfire lacks one very important feature to make data preparation more useful: basic operations on external tables. Other tools offer this in terms of joins, filters for row and columns, simple calculations, aggregation and similar. All these ope...
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration