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    Prompt Dialog Box Modification in Spotfire Webplayer/Client

    Currently the wordings in Prompt are based on the column selected and the rest are displayed by default. By being able to alter the content of the prompt we can highlight important inputs or educate the user before selection or input of data is pr...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    union multiple text files as one datatable, searh files by wildcard , extension,etc

    Many customers have data exported from devices , these data are stored in text files with different date, time, etc and all have the same column structure. Customers want to union all these text files as one datatable by specify folder, or search ...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Support for chinese characters, using a non 8bit character encoding on the database.

    The customer wants to be able to show chinese characters in the Professional client, for a datasource set up in IS on a database server with non 8bit encoding. (US7ASCII)
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Document how to Prompt for User Authentication on Information Designer JDBC Data Source with Kerberos Authentication.

    As report developer, I would like instructions/documentation on how to enable user credentials prompt on information designer data sources configured to use Kerberos authentication.This is needed for cases when the Web Player Server uses Kerberos ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Generate only ANSI-92 SQL, rather than ANSI-89 SQL and then only ANSI-92 SQL for outer joins.

    We are connecting to a new product Teiid to allow data virtualisation across data sources. This uses ANSI-92 as default and best practice, and hints for performance tuning across databases will not work if the SQL is written in ANSI-89. ANSI-89 is...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire should automatically detect the entity relations based on the metadata.

    *Description* > Currently there is an option to manually map the relations but it would be much simpler if Spotfire could read them directly from the endpoint's metadata. > Spotfire should have ability to automatically detect the entity rela...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Import Named Ranges from MS Excel

    Importing a Named Range can facilitate easier and repeatable linkage between Excel and Spotfire when the page format in Excel is a report style or contains other information other than a data table of rows and columns.
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Showing up the status of dashboard rendering

    As of Spotfire 10.10.4 version, we have identified that the dashboard library path is showing up. Instead, in my opinion it would be nice to show the where exactly my request is. Meaning, when any user click on the dashboard link. Request sent to ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    allow Insert as Text in expression used by Row Filter transformation

    Please allow Insert as Text in expression used by Row Filter transformation Customer would like to limit data by matching column to a string list(Document Property) using $map() function in Row Filter transformation, however currently Document Pro...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Establish Data Access to Airtable

    As services like Airtable become more and more prominent especially for business users, currently there's no easy way to connect this to Spotfire. Everyone has to build his on connector via Python aso. Airtable is a good opportunity to get away fr...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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