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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

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

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

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 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Needs Info

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...
about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Table properties lose their values when "insert columns" is used ...

Hi Developers, Referring to the Support Case Number: 00739725; TIBCO confirmed that If the new data does not have a value for the property, the value from the old data is used. If both old and new data have a value, the new one is used. If we have...
about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 5 Future Consideration

Unpivot new columns of specified data types automatically

I am bringing excel file into Spotfire that has dates as the column names. I have loaded the data into Spotfire by conducting an unpivot transformation on all date columns. When new columns (new dates) are added to the excel file, however, it does...
about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

Alias Columns in Information Designer Using Custom SQL

I've noticed that on occasions where I'm required to use custom SQL in my information links that I'm unable to alias the column names. I'm all for renaming columns within a DXP, but several of my users share information links. This can become cumb...
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Option to make normal table data editable and/or make new record entry in backend table from Webplayer

There are often needs for users to present the current status of the configuration tables and also allow the users to be able to modify the configurations. Right now all normal tables (dashboard) are readonly. It will really help to have option ...
over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

Replacing a file for an information link from the Data Panel does not prompt Match Columns dialog

I am using Spotfire version 7.12. I ran into a scenario where I needed to replace a spreadsheet with an information link. The columns in the spreadsheet are named and cased differently than the information link. I expected that when I replaced the...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration