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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...
almost 8 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...
about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 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...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 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 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Data Streams 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 ...
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

Add anti-join option as a Join type

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

Table relations and cycles

When you get to a certain level of complexity in your DXP file, you often hit problems with cyclic dependencies between data tables. It would be extremely helpful to be shown where the cycles exist when you are trying to add new relations. Further...
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 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 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

Spotfire should allow in-place replacement of unavailable non-embedded data sources

When a Spotfire report pulls in a data source in the data canvas that is not embedded and the source is no longer available, the user is unable to replace the data source in place without using the replace button at the top of the canvas, which re...
7 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

Allow viewing and un-hiding hidden columns in data table or remove ability to hide columns

Spotfire allows a user to hide a column which is a precedent to a calculated column. But there is no way to unhide the column or see the columns that are hidden. Since the columns still exist, there should be a way to reverse the action of hidin...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration