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Data Management

    Determine column types using type information in data set rather than data values

    Spotfire infers column types by examining the values in (the first 1000) rows of the data set being loaded. This generally works well but makes mistakes often enough that manual correction becomes laborious. A case in point is when real-valued dat...
    over 8 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...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Add column search in data in analysis flyout

    Current, in the data analysis flyout, I need need to scroll through the entire list of columns to find the one I want to select or edit. This becomes inefficient when working with wide datasets containing dozens or hundred of columns. Previously, ...
    12 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Already exists

    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 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Visualization 0 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 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Support for in-memory star-schema relational model without requirement of Insert Columns

    Support for 2+ tables in the same visualization. Note: The current functionality (as of 7.8 and earlier) supports two FACT tables in the same visualization, but not a FACT table and 1+ DIMENSION table(s). This enhancement request (Original enhance...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 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.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Descriptive naming of operations in transformations in data canvas

    When working with the data canvas, it can be difficult to see details of the operations have been performed on the data. For example, every calculated column is listed as "Calculate new column". If there are lots of calculated column, each one mus...
    over 6 years 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...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

    Add Trust option for custom queries for Spotfire Desktop.

    Th Custom Queries feature allows users to execute a database query when connecting to a database but before ingesting data into Spotfire, which works effectively to limit data processing times for a large data table. Custom queries must be execute...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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