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    Exclusionary Filters/Prompts for Data Sources

    It is already possibility to filter or provide prompting when loading data from an information link or even from other database sources. However, these filters are limited to POSITIVE matches (single select, range, multi-select, etc). It would be...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Support custom properties in the Business Directory at the column level

    Currently the Business Directory only supports custom metadata properties at the table level. This needs to be supported at the Column level so that data stewards can annotate individual columns with business metadata.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data catalog / metadata 0 Future Consideration

    Script/ shortcut-button to rebuild spotfire using data table properties "Source information" (can edit this table to remove old column etc.)

    this is to lessen re-creating file following the data table properties source information, currently using this as reference by re-creating a damage file, no data on table due to missing column reference file but really long to do, especially for ...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Reading multiple text files from file structure

    Log file data from processing equipment is often automatically exported to a text file at a given location of a file tree. When there is a large amount of machines which generate new log files for each process run, automated gathering of this data...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Fully Editable Data Tables

    One is able to go through a wide variety of steps to build a data table. These include: choosing data sources, insert rows, columns, transformations, adding source of file column (during insert rows) etc etc... They should all be editable! Sometim...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to output parameter value as-is without single or double quotes

    Check the following use cases of that scenario: Very often template developers need ability to add custom-built expressions to queries in FROM, WHERE and ORDER BY parts. Multi-tenancy for templates: one set of template/IL/DS can be used for diff...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Import data from internet

    It would be great if Spotfire could import a data table for the internet.; functionality that is similar to what is possible in Microsoft Excel or Power BI
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Connector for Apache Kylin

    Spotfire should provide better support for Apache Kylin: http://kylin.apache.org/ At the moment, only a native ODBC connection is possible, where "keep data external" is not an option. As Kylin is a SQL based big data caching engine, "import data"...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Enable column sorting in schema and output stream

    I am using streambase v7.6.6 In a named schema or table schema, I can't sort the fields by name, which could be handy when I compare a schema with a stream in streambase. I need to do this quite often, e.g. when I need to write into a data table, ...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire Streaming 1 Already exists

    Point and Drag Mapping

    When creating the Output of an operator in the properties view, offer a mapping tool to drag functions, input fields, etc to fill in code or expressions. For example: in a map's Output Settings view, I can select the Streams > Input > input1...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire Streaming 2 Future Consideration
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