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Add the "pad" function

I would like to see the PAD (and/or LPAD/RPAD) function added to Spotfire. This is a common string function in many other DBMSs and tools. Example use case:I had a data source with one column containing SEQUENCE (i.e. integer 1-15) and another col...
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

add option to trust PyPI sites for installing python packages to Analyst

Some of our customers are seeing below error when using Python Tools to manage python packages. (possible due to proxy server is enforcing SSL inspection on HTTS communications including PyPI) 2023-07-14T08:55:42,837+09:00 2023-07-13 23:55:42,837 ...
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 1 Unlikely to implement

Hide Repeating Hierarchy Levels

Flat ragged hierarchies often repeat values at lower levels due to different drill down paths. It would be very nice to have the options to hide levels if the parent has the same value. Currently I have to click down through many repeating levels ...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions / Filters 0 Future Consideration

Embedding Data Functions

We use Data Functions from our server library to quickly add features to new DXP files. The issue we are having is once you add a data function to a new DXP file it keeps the server path. If someone make a change to the function and then saves, it...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

Categorize data functions

i find the new data function capabilities in Spotfire really useful and the ability to pin data functions to an easily accessible data function panel is very handy. However the long list of functions looks a bit intimidating. It would make it much...
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

Move the 'freeze Column' button away from the 'Edit' button for calculated fields

I can't tell you how many times I've accidentally clicked the Freeze Column button in an analysis. This causes the data table to become embedded, and there is no way to un-embed it. Thus I lose would, and because there's no version control in Spot...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 Future Consideration

Make STRING_AGG available as aggregate function for In-Database connections

SAP HANA supports STRING_AGG function. https://help.sap.com/viewer/4fe29514fd584807ac9f2a04f6754767/2.0.04/en-US/a924ee1e98ab435a874efa32e6f0ae14.html Also SQL Server and Azure Synapse support STRING_AGG https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/...
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

$esc() should also take strings as argument

Sometimes it would be useful when $esc() could use a string argument instead of a property. For example to set a display name using a condition, something like the foloowing expression: [Column] as $esc(if(${property}="1","1","not 1"))
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Will not implement

Forecast even when any number of missing values between measurements.

Real data has missing values all the time (holidays, technical issues, user issues). Most data is not perfect.
almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 1 Future Consideration

Allow users to unhook embedded data function from Spotfire library

If a user has a dxp file containing an embedded TERR data function that is synchronized with the Spotfire library, the path to the library is visible in the Data Function Properties dialog. If the user makes a change to the local copy and saves wi...
almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration