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    Add "Scan all Rows" to Import dialog for excel and text files - to improve column data type determination

    Spotfire sometimes incorrectly guesses the data type for Excel and text files because it scans only a portion of the rows in the file. Well add an option so it scans the whole thing so we can get that data type right the first time! SPSS Modeler h...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Connector to Power BI XMLA EndPoints

    Our organization uses a lot of Spotfire but there are other BI Tools in use, particularly Power BI. Our Spotfire teams of late have been getting asked to connect to what are referred to as "XMLA Endpoints". Power BI workspaces use an "XMLA endpoin...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Easier to search for tables in a TDV data catalog

    The available search function in the Files and data flyout always searches the whole library. This makes it hard to find tables in a TDV data catalog (in the Files and data flyout) since the search result also includes Information Links and other ...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Likely to implement

    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...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Support Blob storage as data source

    Hi Team, I am expecting Spotfire to support Blob storage as a data source. As currently, I am trying to find out the way to connect Spotfire to blob and create an analysis. But I am not able to find any way to connect Spotfire to Blob. I have tri...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Statistica Enterprise Server and Spotfire Server integration

    This is a set of ideas, the major theme being to enable integration between Spotfire Server (in addition to Analyst) and Statistica Enterprise Server. The follow-up ideas delineate possible key points of this integration. Currently Spotfire Analys...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Validate data sources from a report.

    It would be helpful to validate that all data sources are accessible for a report. If an information link, or network shared file gets removed, the report might only indicate a problem when updating data, but not be very clear when it does. Being ...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Cognite Data Fusion connector

    Cognite Data Fusion is an increasingly popular data platform and we want a supported Spotfire CDF connector.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 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...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / JDBC / ODBC / ADO 0 Future Consideration

    Load shapefiles from file geodatabase

    Currently we have to keep two copies of a "shapefile", one in a geodatabase for performant use in ArcGIS and a second as an extracted shapefile for use in Spotfire. I'd like Spotfire to be able to load shapefiles from a file geodatabase (not just ...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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