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    Define information link using arbitrary SQL

    Bring a custom SQL over and have Spotfire create an information link from it.
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 4 Future Consideration

    Define Calculated Column in Information Link

    Any dynamic calculations which change by filtering cannot be defined in the Information Link. The only other option is to use Calculated Columns in the analysis, but this prevents reuse by different users and can impact consistency of the calculat...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

    Possibility to re-order prompt sequence

    To be able to support multiple use-cases with the same template and ultimately same info links it would be required to enable the end user to dynamically re-arrange the prompting sequence. Say the default sequence is prompting for a time range fir...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Data Table Properties > link to source within Information Designer

    When I look into the "Source Information" tab, present me with a button that can take me directly into information designer for the related information link (if information link is present) - perhaps even make the information link a clickable hype...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    create more than 1 information service processes

    Pleas add capability to create more than 1 information service processes, and evenly distribute simultaneously executed multiple ILs among them, in order to improve data loading performance, especially when data is huge.
    7 months ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Selected data input values should turn up in a list of selected values

    In case you have to select data input variables from a (very) long list of variables, it is difficult to keep track of all the values you have selected using the ctrl-button. Therefore, whenever you select an input variable, it should be made viss...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

    use parameter as identifier in Information link SQL

    From time to time, we receive requests from our customers that they want to load data from database where table name is dynamic, e.g. on demand load data from different tablenames all of them have the same column structure. Unfortunately currently...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Display a specific message when an Information Link datasource has exceeded it´s connection limit

    When data from an information link could not be read because an underlying data source has reached it´s connection limit a message should be displayed about that instead of a generic error message about a timeout. The details section of the messag...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    support prompt for parameters on Information Link in Web Player

    We can configure prompt or parameter on Information Link or data connection. Currently the behavior is different as (1) prompt on IL is prompted in Analyst (2) prompt on IL is prompted in Web Player (3) parameter on IL is prompted in Analyst (4) p...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 3 Future Consideration

    Support PostgreSQL functions returning refcursors

    Information Designer doesn't support PostgreSQL functions that return refcursors. We have a need to write a function that can return different columns under different circumstances - which requires returning a refcursor. It is possible to do this ...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration
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