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    Purge cached data when saving analysis

    PROBLEM: When saving an analysis as a DXP or into the library, with the analysis Spotfire saves a snapshot of cached data from the data tables at the point in time that the developer initially loaded/refreshed them. Generally this could be desirab...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

    Change the default data column order in data table

    How can I change or set the default data column order? User have a use case where they need to schedule an automated jobs that requires columns to be ordered by some column property. We need to have the ability to change the default order of the c...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Additional string function where you are able to change the rounding settings

    Belongs to the article https://community.tibco.com/questions/rounding-issue-string-function. If you use a numeric column and convert the result to a string column, there are always only 2 decimals shown. For calculating P values you´ll need 4 dec...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions / Data Management 6 Future Consideration

    Ability to replace Data source without opening a file

    Need to be able to replace the data source on multiple files without opening the file.
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 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...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Sort table columns directly in data canvas

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    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Add ability to search inside data sources in information designer

    I'm often working on information links. To add columns in joins, column elements, filters etc. I always have to scroll through the tables in the data source, open them, add the columns... This is time consuming and annoying work. My suggestion is ...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Add export capability for data prep/ data wrangling in data canvas

    In Spotfire data canvas, users is able to view the data modeling diagram as well as transformations for data wrangling and preparation in the data canvas. But it's really hard for users to see the data transformation processes taken for data table...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

    bring back the "reload with prompt" button in spotfire X

    please bring back the "reload with promped" button for linked data tables in the data table properties of spotfire X like it was implemented in Spotfire 7.xx. This option should only be available for linked data tables. It would be good to have a ...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    In Column Properties > Sort Order, add "sort based on ..."

    Add a fourth radio option. If selected we can use an expression to set the sort order based on other column(s) in the same table. e.g. my table has categoryName, categorySequence I would select the new option, and sort expression would simply be [...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration
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