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    Improvement of " Unable to open analysis " Error message

    If user is trying to open a Spotfire dashboard it fails with error " The task could not be completed. Unable to open analysis 'followed by dashboard path' " which is unclear to investigate. It is better if we include reason or complete error messa...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Spotfire Analyst native connector for Google BigQuery to connect with service account

    Our vendor that provides us with our cloud-hosted data in Google BigQuery provides service accounts for us to access the data in their project, but does not add our Google accounts to the project. Other tools like Microsoft Power BI allow analysts...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Increase Zooming details

    Currently, the zooming ability in maps of Spotfire is not sufficient : we have 1 point per square meter. We would like to be able to zoom further to separate those points.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Multiple color axes in visualization mods

    Add the ability to define additional color axes to be used with a visualization mod. This is very useful when you want to color more than one axis in a visualization. The additional color axes should have the same configuration options as the stan...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    give the infoLink builder in information designer the look and feel of the data canvas

    The infoLink builder interface is now highly technical in look and feel while there is a very nice interface with virtually the same functionality available in the data canvas. This would greatly help the self service use of the tooling. Please co...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 9 Future Consideration

    Control the Map Ratio Settings with a doc properties or expression

    Allow the map ratio settings to be controlled by a document property or a expression. This would be very useful when using non-map based coordinates For example, gunbarrel diagrams in oil and gas. These are often shown with vertical exaggeration b...
    3 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 To be Reviewed

    Custom expression when performing unpivot/pivot data transformation

    It would be useful to have the possibility to use custom expressions in pivot transformations. This would allow users to already create tailormade columns during the transformation phase, rather than once the data is loaded completely.
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Improvements to the ability to select columns within transformations

    I'd love to see the following features included in the interface for selecting columns within transformations. In the Exclude Transformation: 1) Identify the columns to not exclude (i.e include). If I have 100 columns, and 20 I want to include, it...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Permissions for data connections similar as for information links

    With information links you can simply give Access permission to the users and the info link can be used in a dashboard, without letting users browse into the folder the info link and use it. With data connections this is not possible: you must gra...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire should support Azure Data Lake Store Gen2

    Spotfire should offer native live query support for Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 (ADLS).
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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