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    Using StreamBase Studio as client tool on remote PC for development to a Data Stream host server and also integrate Streambase Studio with OKTA..

    This would be helpful in a share environment with different development groups.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire Streaming 1 Unlikely to implement

    Import fixed width data tables into Spotfire

    Sometimes source data tables are in the format of fixed width, no delimiter being used. Below is an example. Each field has a fixed width of 3 characters, but no delimiter. a def gh abc def g ab de ghi Importing data like this into Spotfire, there...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Automatically suggest joins in Information Link.

    Spotfire should automatically suggest joins, when columns from different tables are added to the Information Link. We want Information Designer to be smart enough to suggest the joins already created, that are required on the Information Link, whe...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Depivot in Information Link

    It should be possible to do a depivot in an Information Link.
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Data Type of Column that starts as Int but later contains strings doesn't read the strings

    Hi, In the situation where a column in an excel file contains strings and integers but starts with integers, the data type of the column read into Spotfire is integer. It can't be changed from within Spotfire to read string and read in the string ...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    import txt files with fix size columns

    Spotfire import txt file with delimiters only, if you have a file with fix columns size you need to transform it before. I know this file format is not traditionnal but when it is needed I use another tool to change the format
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    SharePoint Online connector should be able to load Likes and Star Ratings from lists

    With SharePoint Lists you can set up rating with voting resp. star rating. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/add-a-ratings-feature-to-your-library-5901fcfd-19ca-4f27-a65f-284654298552 Theses number of likes or average of star rating are n...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to control the capture strategy on all adaptors and operators

    Currently, most of the adaptors and operators have a capture strategy set to "FLATTERN". It would be good to be able to configure the capture strategy to all "FLATTERN" or "NEST", or make a sbd conf properties to set this value globally.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Streaming 1 Future Consideration

    Control Order for data table loading

    I have not seen an idea requested or the functionality in Spotfire, but feel free to correct me if the functionality exists. My dashboard is populated using a series of Information Links and Data Connectors. One of my data connectors is dependent ...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Show name of data table being processed in open file progress dialog when opening an analysis

    Most of my analysis files use a lot of different data sources. Some take a long time to load - not a problem as I run them once a day. But it would be very nice to see at which data table he's working on instead of just "Opening connection to data...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration
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