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    Spotfire Analyst - Open Information Designer to edit selected Information Link from Data canvas

    With a right-click on the icon for the Information Link within the Data canvas, and/or with a button (see attached modified screenshot), the Information Designer would open for editing the selected Information Link. This would improve a lot the wo...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Google BigQuery API Timeout after 10 seconds

    We have run into an issue which will stop us to develop any valuable datasets in Spotfire. So the situation is the following: When I run a query based on a table definition Spotfire kicks out a bigquery#table job which runs fine with no issues Whe...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    API to read multiple SBDF files consecutively and append them as a single data table

    I'm proposing an API to read multiple SBDF files consecutively and append them as a single data table. If CustomDataSource is fetching a large SBDF file from a file server (e.g. samba server), I think it would be faster to split it into several SB...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Provide an option to setup a custom database for the default cache db

    The DV server currently uses an embedded PostgreSQL database as the default cache. This enhancement would allow the developer or admin the ability configure any supported cache data source as their "default" cache.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 0 Future Consideration

    Official Support for CDH 6.x

    I think it's important to officially support one of the most important Hadoop distributions in its recent version. CDH 6 has been released more than 1 year ago, so it's time to provide official support for this data source.
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 2 To be Reviewed

    Easily switch between configured visualizations

    When building dashboards for our consumer users, for some visualizations, I would like to be able to provide one or more options that the user can easily choose between. As an example I may have a visualization that shows Class sales over time as ...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Add Sorting to the Visualization Properties Panel

    I can now sort a table by more than 3 columns from the column header, but where can I see the sequence of the columns? The first "Sort by" is clear from the UI, and then all others are "Then by" with a small plus sign, but where is the sequence? T...
    4 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    keep the column elements being ordered as the same as in the database in information designer

    Our customer wants to keep the column elements being ordered as the same as in the database in information designer, in the panel on the left, currently they are always sorted alphabetically.
    9 months ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Map projections

    Add/enable a Google Earth style 3D globe projection. This would solve many issues with World Mercator, lack of polar projections, visualization, etc.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Support scalar stored procedures

    Currently a stored procedure needs to return a table with at least one column in order for Spotfire to create the stored procedure element in Information designer. In Databases like Snowflake, we can have stored procs that only return a scalar val...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 1 Future Consideration
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