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    Retrieve the Source information tab from Data table properties

    Hi team, It would be very useful to have the ability to retrieve all information found in the Source Information tab of the Data table properties.Currently, we can only retrieve parts of that information using the GenerateSourceView method from th...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / API / Data Management 2 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

    Merge columns even if the data types are different.

    When merging columns (data joins), even if the column names are the same, they won't be automatically matched if the data types don't match. When there's a large amount of data, setting each column individually can be time-consuming, so we'd like ...
    4 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    At the intersection of two datasets within data canvas, have the ability to replace both as if you could with an individual dataset.

    If you want to merge two datasets that could be parts of a whole with many transformations after that merge, there should be an option to replace the dataset at the intersection with the complete dataset so that the transformations that would be d...
    9 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 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

    Smart Data Source Optimizer

    In many enterprise Spotfire deployments, reports connect to wide tables or views via JDBC or Infolinks, often bringing in 50–200 columns by default—even when only a fraction of these columns are actually used in visualizations, expressions, or scr...
    5 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Pre-defined DateTime ranges for loading data (on-demand)

    We need to report on data that is filtered on many columns and special DateTime intervals. Information Links are very large so we need to set filters as part of the query that imports data into Spotfire so that only the rows needed by the report a...
    about 6 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 8 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions / Data Management 6 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...
    over 9 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...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / Data Management 3 Future Consideration
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