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    unnecessary message when loading data via on demand

    Customer reported that unnecessary message is always shown when loading data via on demand. See attached screencast for details. On-demand data not loaded On-demand data was not loaded because no parameters were specified. The message is shown bec...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    turn off automatic column matching when opening the "Add rows" dialog

    If one is trying to add rows to a data table, when the "Add Row" dialog is shown, columns are always matched automatically. Sometimes the automatic column matches are not correct, as indicated by the attached screenshot, the column names are simil...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Allow drag-and-drop Added Column node reordering within Source View

    Being able to drag Added Column nodes left and/or right on the Source View screen would allow developer control of the order in which data is added to the master table without having to rebuild the entire analysis.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    File load dialog needs to show total elapsed minutes

    I am debugging several files and want to know how long they take to open. The file open dialog gives me a running tally of each operation but no summation of the total elapsed time. This requires me to pay attention for the entire load, and I'd ra...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Choose type of column when replacing data in Business Author

    When you replace your data in the Analyst, your are able to chose the type of column. It is not possible with the Business Author. When your column contains integer and text, the column becomes integer and you loose text data
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Sort order of columns in Column Properties

    When we use Properties > Columns, it would be very usefull if we could sort the order of the columns. Today, it just add next and next... and it become hard to use. (Calculated, imported, Hierarchy, etc.) Some properties have the research mod...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Independant scheduling of data tables in a visualisation

    If a visualisation contains 2 or more data tables, it will be great if we can schedule the caching of data for one of the tables while allowing the others to update data as if they're not scheduled.
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Divide a Timespan with an Integer

    When working in mobile data, we need to divide Communication time (timespan) with number of Call (Integer). Today the solution provide with conversion are far too complex for users.
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Highlight new data

    Scientists would benefit from this as it will enable rapid identification of a new data in large data sets. The tool would compare new data table with old one, and the new data cell would be colour-coded or visualised in a different way. On our pr...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

    Data On Demand SQL Optimization - Limit by Filtered Rows

    We use data on demand with "Limit by Filtered Rows" from a lookup tabl quite frequently to allow users to define the data set that is loaded and mange data size. Typically there are multiple filters with a large number of unique values. When the u...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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