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Add calculated columns from data in analysis flyout

In Spotfire 14.5, the column properties dialog was removed in favor of a new behavior within the data in analysis flyout. Creating calculated columns now requires using the data canvas or menus in the main interface. It would be nice to have the a...
6 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Planning to implement

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

Developement with Data Limiting Applied

Would it be possible to have an option in Spotfire Analyst that launches reports in Development Mode, where in any query is limited to X rows, where X is a customizable option (e.g. 1000). This would allow my users and I to load reports quickly, w...
2 months ago in Spotfire / Analytics / Data Access / Data Management 0 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

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

Custom expression when performing unpivot/pivot data transformation

It would be useful to have the possibility to use custom expressions in pivot transformations. This would allow users to already create tailormade columns during the transformation phase, rather than once the data is loaded completely.
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

give the infoLink builder in information designer the look and feel of the data canvas

The infoLink builder interface is now highly technical in look and feel while there is a very nice interface with virtually the same functionality available in the data canvas. This would greatly help the self service use of the tooling. Please co...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 9 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 ...
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Management 6 Needs Info

Ability to add in conditions when joining data in Spotfire Cloud such as >, <, <=, >=

When inserting columns in Spotfire Cloud (desktop version) the data tables can only be joined on exact matches (=). It would be useful to be able to add in conditions such as > or <= to narrow down the number of matches to the desired row in...
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 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...
3 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Visualization 0 Future Consideration