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    Add Financial Calculations and Optimization OOTB in Spotfire

    It would be useful to have basic financial calculations, such as Individual Rate of Return (IRR) and Net Present Value (NPV) in Spotfire, especially for users who are familiar with them from other products such as Excel. Similarly, basic scenario ...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Database - View with Information Links content

    With such a view, administrators (and/or users) could easily identify which SQL queries contain defined keywords. This would help with finding relevant content in the Library, for immediate use or helping to identify Information Links requiring an...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Add support for passthrough queries to CData Couchbase driver

    CData for Couchbase supports query passthrough. TDV does not take advantage of this feature. As a result, we have to pull millions of records from the database instead of pulling back an aggregated summary table. Please add this feature to TDV CDa...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / JDBC / ODBC / ADO 0 To be Reviewed

    improve python data function performance (read sbdf into python)

    Glad to see python package "spotfire" is rewritten on version 2.0.0(spotfire 12.5) and sbdf read/write performance is greatly improved. However, as far as I have tested, although spotfire.sbdf.export_data() is greatly improved and much faster than...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 1 Future Consideration

    Show delta to reference in scatter plot

    Currently in order to show differences compared to a reference in a scatter plot the reference needs to be calculated by the user, either as a calculated column or in the scatter plot itself. A scatter plot has all the information already availabl...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    In Column Properties > Sort Order, add "sort based on ..."

    Add a fourth radio option. If selected we can use an expression to set the sort order based on other column(s) in the same table. e.g. my table has categoryName, categorySequence I would select the new option, and sort expression would simply be [...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Theme - Tick mark for just one visualization

    I need to enable tick marks only for one visualization.
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 0 Future Consideration

    Subtotal column for Rows in the cross table similar to subtotal for columns

    Customer would like to have "subtotal for rows" in cross tables.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Shift transformations in data canvas

    When analysing data, sometimes many transformations are needed. When using add columns, you may realize that the transformation shouldn't have been done on the original table, but at the very end of the result data table, or vice versa. Then you h...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

    Data function refresh in scheduled mode

    Data functions in auto refresh mode are executed righ after the full load of a dxp. But when a dxp is scheduled for execution and save of results in SBDF for instance, the scheduler does not wait for the DataFunctions to execute before going to th...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 0 Future Consideration
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