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

eliminate the difference in file paths between Web Player on Windows and Linux

It turns out lots of our customer are using data linked from files located in shared folder in a file server. So this difference between Web Player on Windows and Linux is critical for them to migrate to Linux (in order to utilize docker & con...
over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 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.
almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

Ability to replace Data source without opening a file

Need to be able to replace the data source on multiple files without opening the file.
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

Allow in-memory functions for streaming data

Custom expressions for streaming data are more limited than for in-memory data. Also marking can cause issues. Mostly I only want to calculate columns or expressions on visuals only for the data currently in Spotfire. Would there be some way to ap...
over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Data Streams 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...
almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Needs Info

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...
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 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...
almost 5 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...
about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration