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    Recursive CTE Support

    I need to be able to query TDV views recursively. CTEs are great for this, but currently I just get the error "invalid table" when referring to the CTE name within the CTE.
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / sql support 0 To be Reviewed

    Pages by for cross and data tables

    Sometimes, having one separate table for each dimension of the data can be very useful. Having the option to display cross tables, but also data tables using the trellis option "pages by" could result in a very useful view on the data. Particularl...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst / Automation Services - No column name for Table / Cross table

    Using a case to exporting data from a visualization to a .txt (tab separated) for example, there is no possibility to export the data without displaying the column names. Some applications require input file without the column title row. The same ...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    TZCONVERTOR SQL import failure

    In cases where the data source provides a valid date but an "unacceptable" timestamp, SQL imports fail with an error message stating "Illegal instant due to time zone offset transition." While this issue is not uncommon across various systems, we'...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / sql support 0 Future Consideration

    Connecting Oracle Data Source using Oracle Internet Directory LDAP/LDAPS

    As per CIS-65495, this feature is not supported. This feature for LDAP works flawlessly in most cases; however, in some cases it doesn't work. Also, there is no clear directives on how to configure Oracle data source using OID on LDAPS. For a firm...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Expose Lists to the Spotfire API

    Currently, Spotfire lists (as seen in the Lists panel) are not accessible via the IronPython API. This limits our ability to automate workflows that rely on lists, such as creating lists from specific column values and using list comparison tools....
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Change (Empty) in axis values of cross table

    When a value for a column on the axis of a cross table is missing, "(Empty)" is displayed. This looks awful. It should be possible to display those entries as empty cells. It can be done by using something like sn([axis column], "") for strings or...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Custom Column Sorting in Property Controls

    When creating property controls that use column selections the display order is no configurable. The columns are listed in the order they are added to the data table, not in the order they are selected and not even in alphabetical order. From a us...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Option to display guidelines that track horizontally and vertically across visualisation charts

    Could we have "on hover" guidelines that track a mouse movement over a chart and help the user to orientate his or herself against the X and Y axes' values? This is particularly for scatter charts. It would be great if we could also display the ex...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Hide markers on Scatter Chart

    Add the option to hide markers on scatter graph and only show the line connectors. Currently, markers can only be displayed in the background, made very small and have relatively innocuous shapes assigned to them but this creates an untidy appeara...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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