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    Cache job auto-restart upon failure

    We would like the option to automatically reattempt a cache job when it fails. We have some public api data sources that randomly fail from time to time, and they succeed if you just restart them. It would save us time and failure alerts if they c...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching / data movement 2 Future Consideration
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    Configurable sorting in cross table headers

    Currently cross tables are presented with a default sorting, as alphanumeric ascending in precedence of column/row positions. This default can now be adjusted to sort based on the results, but not on the values in the headings themselves. Cros...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 5 Future Consideration

    Run a spotfire insight agent on startup

    I open some spotfire analysis files every day, and as they open they load new data from our manufacturing process. I would like to be able to configure one or more insight agents to be run on startup, such that they analyze the data and present th...
    about 1 month ago in Spotfire / AI 0 Future Consideration

    Re-organize Data Canvas Data Sources

    I wish to re-organize and/or color code the Data Table order in the Data Canvas to keep related data sources visually close to each other as a project is built out.
    10 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Improve performance of query retrieving user authorization for more than 300% by removing order by statement

    We discovered a Spotfire query that retrieves user authorization, which has the highest cost and is used more than 400 times an hour on our system. It contains an "order by" statement. If this statement is removed it performs 300% faster. Although...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 7 Future Consideration

    Truncate cache buckets instead of delete

    Currently buckets have all their records deleted, and then the new records are inserted. In the database this means 2 write operations, and is a major cause of index fragmentation. Most databases allow you to truncate the table, which is only an a...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 1 Planning to implement

    Add a file adapter to connect to parquet files directly

    Extend the flat file support of the server to connect directly to parquet files to read in data.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 3 Future Consideration

    Progress Bar in Spotfire Analyst while executing Script

    We would like to have a progress bar in Spotfire Analyst to indicate that a script is currently being executed. Currently there is no way to tell natively if a script is running in the background. We would expect this to look similar to the web pl...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    ability to search library by full file path

    To find a file in the library, users often want to search for it using its full path. Currently, only searching by title is supported. This could return multiple results if there are several files with the same title in different folders. To find ...
    about 1 month ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    allow us to enable "Analyze marked data" independently, without having to enable "Allow background calculations for recommendations."

    Please allow us to enable "Analyze marked data" independently, without having to enable "Allow background calculations for recommendations." This change will allow us to utilize the "Analyze marked data" functionality while avoiding the extra CPU ...
    about 1 month ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration
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