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    Enable Insert Binned Column for In-Database

    Binning is a very useful feature for dashboarding and also for ad hoc analysis and data discovery to add new categorization criteria. But currently Insert Binned Column dialog is not available for in-database connections. Instead users could use C...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    Search by description for tables in a TDV data catalog

    The ability to search for tables in a TDV data catalog (from the Files and data flyout) by description/annotation (in addtion to name/title) would make it easier to find tables in cases where the annotation field contains relevant information.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Likely to implement

    Enable Symbol Sets at the enterprise library level that can be shared or imported.

    When working with large, or very small numbers, there are generally short number formats that are used to make the unwieldy, manageable. Spotfire has a basic standard symbol set, for 10^3 (k) and 10^6 (M) but not larger or smaller than that, as ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Audit tool for the library folders

    At the moment, there is no Spotfire tool / report that allows to audit the library tree, with the access rights. When an audit will occur, it will be impossible to provide a list of folders and their permissions for control.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Library 4 Future Consideration

    Drill Through into detail in ERP Systems

    BI tools is often used for analysis of ERP data on aggregated level. Analysing e.g. production, sale or finance data, you might come to a point where not all details are available through the BI tool. For these cases, users would sometimes value a...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    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...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    TIBCO Spotfire Node Manager - Match answer types between interactive and silent Node Manager upgrade modes

    When upgrading the Node Manager, the option to start automatically the service after the silent upgrade is in the form '--start <service name>' while the interactive upgrade has a "Start Windows service: Yes | No". It would be more coherent ...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    Limiting data from secondary tables in visualisations, calculated values etc.

    When you combine multiple tables in visualisations, the only way to limit data from the secondary tables is to use filtering schemes. This makes it virtually impossible to create real "hard filters" when using multiple tables because users can alw...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    put full path of currently opened dxp file into document property

    Customer wish that Analyst can put full path of currently opened dxp file (whether from local file or from library) into document property (as a runtime value) automatically. He needs to pass this path to Python data function and do something with...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Case-insensitive TDV search

    Since 11.6 TDV can be browsed and searched directly from the files and data flyout, an excellent addition! Unfortunately contrary to (all) other search sources the TDV view search is case sensitve. Making it also case insensitve seems to be the be...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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