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    Infer Schema option for files on Windows

    Implement Infer Schema options when connecting to files when TDV is running in a Windows environment. File-Delimited adapter cannot infer schema when introspecting CSV files. TDV documentation says that this is possible with the Local File Storage...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 1 Unlikely to implement

    Truncate Function in Spotfire

    Currently I don't see a function to truncate the values while creating a calculated column. Ex. Truncating 1.56 to one value after decimal which would be 1.5 (Round function would change it to 1.6) Spotfire has a round function. But it would be gr...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Add error message-stack trace to Web Player errors.

    We used to have this feature before 10.3. Can we please get it back? When a user encounters a problem trying to open a file on the Web Player, the error notification does not contain any stack trace or helpful diagnostics. Only, a completely usele...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 3 Already exists

    Set up a framework for Shiny in Spotfire, for easy integration between the two

    Enable use of shiny in Spotfire, such as shown here: http://shiny.rstudio.com/tutorial/js-lesson1/
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 1 Future Consideration

    Allow Side-By-Side Bars to Overlap

    Several users are disappointed that Spotfire doesn't have all the charting features available in Excel. One feature I'd like to see is the ability to overlap side-by-side bars. I know we can stack bars, but that is not what I'm talking about. The ...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    Smart Data Source Optimizer

    In many enterprise Spotfire deployments, reports connect to wide tables or views via JDBC or Infolinks, often bringing in 50–200 columns by default—even when only a fraction of these columns are actually used in visualizations, expressions, or scr...
    11 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    API to get display name of an axis expression

    By default, the display name of an axis expression has slightly different syntax than the expression itself, e.g. "Max([col1])" is displayed as "Max(col1)". The display name is needed for several use cases, e.g. as category key in a color scheme a...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Information Links to TDV Virtual Views migration

    Various Spotfire customers rely on 1000's of Information Links. Since IL's can't keep data external current investments in new and fast In Memory DB's (like SAP HANA) can't be leveraged fully. Moving away from IL's is a tedious task when there are...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Principle Component Analysis - bring it back to Spotfire

    For big data exploration in healthcare, I am using spotfire now since 2001. One of my favorite pieces of software. After uprgrading from 7.11 to Spotfire Desktop 11, Principle Component Analysis (PCA) went missing. Its a key feature in summarizing...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Already exists

    Add list-library-content as administration command

    Ability to list library content to use for CICD related tasks, this list/verify if the source/destination content/structure exists. Listing should have the same parameters like item-type in export-library-command so you can list specific items lik...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration
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