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    Merge columns even if the data types are different.

    When merging columns (data joins), even if the column names are the same, they won't be automatically matched if the data types don't match. When there's a large amount of data, setting each column individually can be time-consuming, so we'd like ...
    10 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Enhancements to the "Place Visualization" feature

    I want to align visualizations evenly, and be able to freely set the number to display vertically and horizontally, like in a trellis panel. I want to be able to specify the number of visualizations that can be displayed vertically and horizontall...
    10 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Stop Analyst from stealing Windows' focus

    When opening Spotfire, or when executing something that has "progress", it steals the focus from WindowsOS multiple times. This is very disruptive for the user. While it loads I want to be able to surf the web, write e-mails or whatever my work de...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 2 Needs Info

    Pre-defined DateTime ranges for loading data (on-demand)

    We need to report on data that is filtered on many columns and special DateTime intervals. Information Links are very large so we need to set filters as part of the query that imports data into Spotfire so that only the rows needed by the report a...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    label of multiple type (text +structure)

    Can you allow lables to be more than one type and of multiple type for example to display text and a structure or text and an image?
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Use the link option of table fields in calculated values on text area

    Today if you want to make a field on a table as a link you can change on the table properties and choose an address with the {$} who representes the data. If other visualisations could have the same formating option would be really useful. For exa...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration

    allow to call postgresql function & procedure

    One can call postgresql function or procedure using below method from information link call procedure with?escapeSyntaxCallMode=callIfNoReturn jdbc:postgresql://<host>:<port>/database?escapeSyntaxCallMode=callIfNoReturn call function w...
    5 months ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 To be Reviewed

    Add ability to parse arrays of scalar values to JSON_TABLE

    Currently, JSON_TABLE supports parsing arrays of JSON objects into rows. That works well, several of the documented examples show how to do that. Unfortunately, this feature does not currently support parsing arrays of scalar values. Being able to...
    10 months ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / sql support 0 To be Reviewed

    Please add APis to retrieve metadata like connection string of data source and other information of data source

    CUrrently, we have usecase for data catalog to retrieve information of a dashboard like the data tables used, data sources relevant and the connect info. But we do not see the DXP having this info and there are no underlying APIs to extract such m...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Line Charts - Break line if data point is missing

    It would be useful to have an option to break the line on a line chart whenever the data point does not exist in the data. This is a different scenario compared to the already available behavior where there is a row in the data table just the valu...
    10 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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