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Add a Favourites folder and Recent Locations option to Information Designer

THis would save a lot of time. The Information Designer doesn’t even remember where you were last, and open at that location. You have to constantly navigate from the root folder. Adding Favourites and Recent Locations would be a great help. Also,...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 2 Future Consideration

Spotfire Analyst - Information designer search result filter and actions improvements

When using the Find All References, the result can contain several thousands of records. It is good to have a list, bu no further action can be done on the items found. In order to help the Administrators, Information Designer users, the following...
over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 2 Future Consideration

Add ability to allow people to see how an information link is built but not modify it

As an admin, I frequently get asked about what is behind an information link. It would be nice if I had a group or permission that users could be assigned to where they could view how an information link is built but not be able to modify it or cr...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 2 Future Consideration

Secure proxy configuration for Information Services data sources

For data sources it's not possible to use a proxy with a password in a secure way as the password is visible in the connection URL. With the move to cloud data sources this is an essential setting.
over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 2 Future Consideration

Enable ability to paste in SQL on an information link without needing to add data columns

In extending Spotfire to replace legacy reporting, or in cases where SQL queries were developed and known to be good, the manual creation of column attributes, filters andjoins is tedious and pasting in a SQL on an information link can speed devel...
about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 2 Future Consideration

Need ability to retrieve all columns in a table through information link (Select * from table) rather than adding individual columns to the information designer

In most cases, we use all the columns from a table or view to be source for spotfire through an information link. Any new column addition in the back end table or any column data type modification will NOT automatically propagate to the informatio...
about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

build table's alias with alphabet for information link SQL to avoid errors

We are seeing SQL error with some databases when loading data via information link. The SQL is generated by Information Designer with table's alias being built from the first character of the table name. In case of MongoDB (via MySQL data source t...
10 months ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Add hyperlinks directly to Information Designer objects in Document and Column Properties

Can we add a hyperlink in the Data Table and Column Properties, which opens the Information Designer - and opens the object immediately. It is time consuming to copy the ID and search for the item, or navigate to the folder - especially as the Inf...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

More details in action log for Information Links

The new(ish) action logging for data connections is excellent - we can easily see from a single record what type of database was used, the specific database, how long the query took and how much data was returned. Extracting similar data for Infor...
almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

Show path for the search items like information link in information designer.

Right now when someone try to search for an information link with some part of its name like *well* on information designer it doesn't return the path, again we have to open Library admin do same thing there and find the path then come back again ...
almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 2 Future Consideration