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    Trust all for custom SQL in connectors

    Extremely tedious and error-prone to trust individual SQL statements. A "Trust All" functionality would be helpful.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Limit input options on f(x) flyout

    Limit options for input params so user cannot select data in an unintended way. For instance, Column selection may not want to allow column expression.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Allow in-memory functions for streaming data

    Custom expressions for streaming data are more limited than for in-memory data. Also marking can cause issues. Mostly I only want to calculate columns or expressions on visuals only for the data currently in Spotfire. Would there be some way to ap...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Data Streams 0 Future Consideration

    Overlay Property Controls on Charts

    Overlay property controls on charts to reduce need for reserved text areas and so actions/filters related to visuals can be kept close to each other.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Change default load method when using a Data Connector.

    By default, when creating a data table from a Data Connector, the default load method is always set to Keep Data External unless the Load method on the data connector has been set Imported Data Only Similarly, when opening a data connector from th...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Connectors Load Type Visibility

    Show whether in memory or in database when creating connection as you often don't realise it defaults to in-database. Change default to in-memory or allow it to be configurable in options or administration manager.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Custom Date Format on Axes

    The ability to input the date display type similar to Excel format codes (e.g., YYYY, YY-MMM, etc.) – without overriding / depending on the underlying column format
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    SVG in Buttons

    Allow SVG images in buttons to create nice menus.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Changed the function to retrieve Datasource name registered in DSN using ODBC Function

    Hello, I created this idea in conjunction with the SR below. https://support.tibco.com/s/case/5004z00001uHqlwAAC/how-to-get-the-information-of-the-connected-tdv-datasource-from-the-dsn-set-in-window Currently, the TDV ODBC driver does not provi...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / JDBC / ODBC / ADO 0 Future Consideration

    Choose the default data type when importing Excel files

    It would be useful to have a default data type setting when importing Excel files. This would prevent the user from having to select a certain type for each column if they wanted them all to be the same. For example, if a user wants all of the col...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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