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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 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 4 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"
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

Data Tables Associations with Primary - Foreign Keys

Multiple tables should be joined with Primary - Foreign Keys concept. So Spotfire can calculate measures from one table and visualise dimensions from other associated table. This is concept to improve data redundancy and hence application performa...
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Needs Info

Match columns dialog: make it sorted / sortable

Dear Supporters, please make the entries in the match columns dialog box sorted or at least sortable. Regards,
over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 6 Future Consideration

need storage persist option for replacing data tables

Whenever I replace a data table the storage method always resets to "always new data". Can the previous setting be preserved across replacement? It's extra step to reset to the previous setting (if I can recall what it was), and is quite annoying....
about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Option to explicitly select the columns to include when inserting columns (rather than only exclude columns)

When inserting columns into a data table within Spotfire, the user selects the column(s) to include in the last window. However, what is actually happening behind the scenes is an Exclude Columns transformation where the columns the user hasn't se...
almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 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...
about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

Add possibility to disable/enable transformations in data canvas

IN data canvas, you can see all the transformation steps on the data, you can edit and delete them. In many cases, when trying things out, during development and similar, you may want to temporarily disable the step(s) and enable these later again.
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 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...
almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

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...
almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration