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Table relations and cycles

When you get to a certain level of complexity in your DXP file, you often hit problems with cyclic dependencies between data tables. It would be extremely helpful to be shown where the cycles exist when you are trying to add new relations. Further...
12 months 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 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

Provide API to retrieve information link details (SQL)

Major data lineage tools (Informatica, ERwin) support scanning all BI tools such QlikView, Tableau, SAP, Cognos, but do not support Spotfire!! the stated reason from multiple vendor is Spotfire does not provide API to retrieve information link det...
over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 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 7 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions / Data Management 6 Future Consideration

Button to switch from copied table to original table in data canvas

In data canvas i want to switch to the table which is copied in another table via a simple button. In big data models with a lot of tables you can switch easier to the table which is in the acutall shown table just copied / linked.
over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Create a pivot transformation from a cross table

The Cross table in Spotfire is a nice way to visually build a pivoted data table. It would be great if it was possible to create a pivot transformation from the cross table (similar to how it is possible to create a filter transformation from a fi...
about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

Files and Data... > Recommended should show data in analysis as well as recent data

Hello, Data already loaded in the analysis is "Recent data". It should therefore be included in the "Recommended" flyout with the Recent data. It should not be "Other". "Other' is a list of external connectors - data in analysis does not fit there...
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Allow column selection and filtering when loading a Library Data File (SBDF)

When using Information Designer, it's possible to use filtering to restrict the rows that are returned and to be very specific about the columns that are returned. We're seeing a significant increase in the use of Library Data Files (SBDFs) as dat...
over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 4 Future Consideration

Add "Limit data using expression" functionality to data function input data

When specifying input data for a data function, I am missing the "Limit data using expression" function. The limit by filtering and/or marking is there - but not the expression? This would really help limit the number of records sent to R for proc...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

limit rows with "OR" operations of "limit by marking" and "limit by expression"

There's two options to limit table rows, one is "limit by marking", the other is "limit by expression". When setting both, they work together as "AND". We ask to be able to make them work together as "OR"
almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Visualization 0 Future Consideration