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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

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,
about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 6 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.
almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

Add ability to search inside data sources in information designer

I'm often working on information links. To add columns in joins, column elements, filters etc. I always have to scroll through the tables in the data source, open them, add the columns... This is time consuming and annoying work. My suggestion is ...
about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 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.
about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

Add anti-join option as a Join type

For scenario where the unmatched portion of a data are to be retained.
about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

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...
about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 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

Shift transformations in data canvas

When analysing data, sometimes many transformations are needed. When using add columns, you may realize that the transformation shouldn't have been done on the original table, but at the very end of the result data table, or vice versa. Then you h...
5 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 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...
about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration