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Add Sort Column Transformation

Some times, more complex expression containing the Previous function requires that the data table are in certain order, something not possible with actual version of Spotfire. So I suggest a new type of transformation
over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

Change default insert columns behavior

The way that the Spotfire insert columns mechanism is built is it builds a list of columns to ignore, rather than a list of columns to insert. For example, let's say you have Table A with column A, B, and C. You insert column A into Table B. Then,...
over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

Make memory consumption of visualizations visible

When working with "big data" it is important to keep memory requirements under control and oftentimes it is necessary to optimize analyses to reduce memory needs. There is actually two main sources driving Spotfire's memory needs: The size of the ...
about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Management 6 Needs Info

Custom expression when performing unpivot/pivot data transformation

It would be useful to have the possibility to use custom expressions in pivot transformations. This would allow users to already create tailormade columns during the transformation phase, rather than once the data is loaded completely.
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

give the infoLink builder in information designer the look and feel of the data canvas

The infoLink builder interface is now highly technical in look and feel while there is a very nice interface with virtually the same functionality available in the data canvas. This would greatly help the self service use of the tooling. Please co...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 9 Future Consideration

Ability to add in conditions when joining data in Spotfire Cloud such as >, <, <=, >=

When inserting columns in Spotfire Cloud (desktop version) the data tables can only be joined on exact matches (=). It would be useful to be able to add in conditions such as > or <= to narrow down the number of matches to the desired row in...
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

Add transformations to external data tables (and database pushback of these)

Spotfire lacks one very important feature to make data preparation more useful: basic operations on external tables. Other tools offer this in terms of joins, filters for row and columns, simple calculations, aggregation and similar. All these ope...
over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Select All / Deselect All in Import Settings

Sometimes the user needs only 4-5 columns in a dataset from a file or database containing hundreds of columns. When importing into Spotfire, the Import Settings menu does not allow the user (in Spotfire X at least) to select all/ deselect all fiel...
about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Greater/lesser than Join Types (like SQL)

When creating a column add (aka join) between tables, it would be amazing to be able to more specifically define the join type rather than only having an '='. If for example you could select the type from =, >, <, >=, <=, etc. then you...
almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Ability to copy/edit Data Source Information steps to another spotfire report with same data tables

Would be helpful if there is a option to copy all the steps that are perform in one data table when we dot Edit > Data Table Properties > Source Information steps to another Spotfire report which has the same data tables
almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 4 Future Consideration