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    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,...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Improved Performance Against Local File System

    Improve TDV performance when running queries against Local File System (such as CSV files in local file system). File-Delimited adapter Local File Storage adapter
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Likely to implement

    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...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 9 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.
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    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...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

    Support Navigation Properties in OData

    Navigation properties allow to represent semantical links between objects in OData. A link that is technically established as the translation of a foreign key - primary key relation could semantically mean different things. E.g. in banking the acc...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / web services 0 To be Reviewed

    Support for Azure Data Lake Store for read and write capabilities

    TDV needs to be able to read and write files to Azure Data Lake Store. This is Microsoft's cloud version of HDFS that specializes in Big Data Analytical workloads.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data movement / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to copy/edit Data Source Information steps to another spotfire report with same data tables

    Would be helpful if there is a option to copy all the steps that are perform in one data table when we dot Edit > Data Table Properties > Source Information steps to another Spotfire report which has the same data tables
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 4 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 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 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 ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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