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    Data Function New vs Insert

    Merge register new with insert as it can be confusing to users. The process of registering a data function and then clicking run to embed it isn't as intuitive as it could be for new users. Could we remove this step somehow?
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Adding an adapter to consume JSON files directly.

    Currently, there is no adapter to consume JSON files directly. The only capability exists within a web service. Currently we have data sources that are publishing JSON files to a file sharing network, and we are being asked to consume. I'm reque...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 To be Reviewed

    Create a connector for ServiceNow

    As many others we are using ServiceNow and want to add reporting to the standard reports available, either through Spotfire or other reporting tooling with access control and additional logic centralized in TDV. For this no connector is said to ba...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 5 Unlikely to implement

    DataFunction support for external data (in-db)

    The current DataFunction paradigm only allows for sending data from and to the Spotfire in-memory data engine. For a Spotfire user, a Spotfire data table is a Spotfire data table, whether it is external or not. For data science and analysis applic...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Add functionality to read XML body from files in File - XML datasource

    We have multiple collections of XML files that are all of the same XML schema. These files are accesed through the File - XML datasource. Currently, processing XML files from this source requires that a transformation is defined on each file. That...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 1 Unlikely to implement

    Support for Kafka adapter in TDV

    We would like you to add support for a Kafka adapter in TDV to make it possible to access live Kafka data, in avro format, as a datasource. We currently have mulitple Kafka streams storing data in avro format and such an adapter would enable us ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 1 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Matlab service

    We use data functions written in Matlab. I would like these to be run through a "Spotfire Service for Matlab" just in the same way as the "Spotfire Service for Python" that already exists.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Do cache refresh in push down where possible

    In case the cache table is in the same database as all the other tables contributing to the cache, the cache refresh should run in full push down. This instead of selecting and bringing all the data from the database to the TDV server and then sen...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 5 Already exists

    Allow customization of the CREATE TABLE DDL for cache creation

    Allow a developer to customize the CREATE TABLE DDL when creating cache tables so that specific clauses for logging, distributed by, tpartitioning or storage parameters can be added to the CREATE statement. This could be handed edited by the devel...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 1 Future Consideration

    Hide Data Function Scripts for Analyst Users

    It would be great to have a license setting to avoid the Data Function proprietary scripts from being exposed to certain groups of Analyst users, while allowing them to execute data functions. As for right now, even with the Register data function...
    12 months ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration
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