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Date diff function excluding weekends (Working days)

DateDiff - function is used to find the ageing between start date and end date but it includes weekends. Spotfire should add a new functionality in DateDiff function which accepts are parameter to exclude weekends and find working days ageing. Dat...
almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 3 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/...
about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

For String columns in Data Panel, show counts for each unique category value

For number columns in data panel, a histogram is shown to visualize the data distribution. We also need a similar way to visualize the distribution of data for string columns. The way to do this is to visualize the counts for each unique category ...
over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 Future Consideration

Select All/Deselect all options in Hierarchical Filter

"Hierarchy query devices by default use checkboxes. It would be very helpful to add Select All and Deselect all options for the checkboxes at each level of the hierarchy. For large hierarchies e.g. 3 levels of 10 nodes, it is quiet time consuming ...
over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

Filters should interact with each other even when data is external

Filters to influence eachother, and grey out filtered out values for other columns when filtering on any column, as it works when working with imported data. As a consumer and report developer I want the filters to behave the same when working wit...
over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

display of common mathematical expressions based on highlighted data

Would like to highlight data on a graph, and have Spotfire tell me things like the Average, Mean, Max, Min without having to code. I should be able to Display or Hide the "Stats" window, and based on what I highlight in the graph, it calculates th...
about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 Future Consideration

Custom expression function to format data(numeric/datetime,etc) like String.Format([column], "c# format string")

It's good to have custom expression function to format data like String.Format([column], "c# format string") in custom expression or calculated column. Thanks.
almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

Built in conversion for Date strings in serial format

There doesn't seem to be any way for Spotfire to take a date string in serial format (41397) and convert it into a working date. I know when the data table is being uploaded, it can be registered as a date and will be converted. For the purpose of...
about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

Show available functions for an In-Database Connection to SAP HANA

Functions like Case, If, All, AllPrevious Over etc. all work in Spotfire for in-database connection to SAP HANA. But they are not shown in the list of functions available. Our users need an easy to use interface without getting into details of wha...
over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

Refer to Marked items in a custom expression

The should be a way to refer to marked items in a custom expression. for example: sum(if([field1] in marking, 1, 0)) as [var1], sum(if([field1] not in marking, 1, 0)) as [var2] where marking is selected in a different visualization. I know that I ...
over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration