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    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

    Add plan copy ability for deployment manager as well as sorting, site change and resource text entry

    Add a features to the deployment manager that make managing plans for multi-site deployments much simpler, efficient and less time consuming. There is a lot of duplication of work, slow resource selection and no ability to copy plans for more than...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / management 0 Future Consideration

    Support for Azure Analysis Services (Tabular model) data source in TDV

    We need to be able to create connection towards Azure Analysis Services to read data from Tabular Models there.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 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

    Adaptive Query Engine Statistics

    Statistics for data-source tables are independent of the query being executed, and while heuristics can be used to guess the volume of data retrieved & processed by different portions of a query plan, if -- for a configurable time-window -- th...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 0 Future Consideration

    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
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