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    Local File Storage adapter cannot estimate date type

    I have tested the following 5 patterns, but none of them could generate a DATE type. 1. value "20230201" + DateFormat "yyyy-MM-dd" → INTEGER 2. Value "20230201" + DateFormat "yyyyMMMdd" → INTEGER 3. Value "20230201" + DateFormat "yyyyMMMdd" → INTE...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Infer data types by introspecting csv files

    The TDV standard File-Delimited adapter introspects all columns in the CSV file as VARCHAR type. It would save time if the data types were inferred by looking at the data in the CSV file.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 3 Already exists

    Support introspection of column comments from MS SQL Server

    No description provided
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Data Table Properties > link to source within Information Designer

    When I look into the "Source Information" tab, present me with a button that can take me directly into information designer for the related information link (if information link is present) - perhaps even make the information link a clickable hype...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Web UI - Language Localization

    Support localization of the Web UI.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 0 Planning to implement

    Support for Azure Information Protection (AIP)

    Azure Information Protection is being adopted by Azure customers as an add-on layer of authorization at the document level. Applications reading protected documents (eg MS Excel worksheets) need to be AIP-aware. Current behavior from Spotfire: Spo...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    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

    Allow query results to be cached in-memory on Server

    This is different than our normal caching. We want to offer ways to store query results in memory on the server for high-speed / low-latency interaction with the data.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 0 Future Consideration
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