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Views in connection should work with large, slow databases

When adding a new data table from e.g. SQL server in the "Views in Connection" dialog Spotfire waits for all metadata to load with the Custom Query button being greyed out. I request that the Custom Query option be available before the schema has ...
about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration

Applying Same Date Restriction based on User Selection on Multiple Data Sources

I have a workspace that merges cases from multiple data sources. I would like to apply the same date range restriction based on user selection on all the data sources. I know you can use the "Show Defining Data Dialog" for data configurations and ...
over 3 years ago in Spotfire Statistica Future Consideration

Utilization of data from one dashboard to other without using information link

I have created a report in which i am using the data from excel file then i am utilizing the data after making several modifications. Now i want to utilize this data dynamically in to different report . Is it possible?
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration

Specify dimensions when using CustomWizardPromptControlPage

We would like to specify dimensions when we create CustomWizardPromptControlPage. Currently, there is no option in Tibco API to specify the size of the Prompt Control Page.
about 10 years ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

Highlight new data

Scientists would benefit from this as it will enable rapid identification of a new data in large data sets. The tool would compare new data table with old one, and the new data cell would be colour-coded or visualised in a different way. On our pr...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management Future Consideration

list of all the reports which are using generic ODBC connection

Is there any way to identify the details of report that has generic SQL connection or ODBC connection and whose credentials are not saved.
over 6 years ago in Spotfire Future Consideration

File load dialog needs to show total elapsed minutes

I am debugging several files and want to know how long they take to open. The file open dialog gives me a running tally of each operation but no summation of the total elapsed time. This requires me to pay attention for the entire load, and I'd ra...
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management Future Consideration

Can the Lib Admin tool please correctly sort the folder permissions?

This has been in existence for like ever, and it's super annoying. In the LA tool, folder permissions are not sorted (!). So in our real-world scenarios, we have many users or groups on a folder, and it's very inefficient to near impossible to fin...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Library Future Consideration

Better doc examples for functions.

When we are in the "Custom expression" view, we can make a search for built-in functions. We get a nice description of what it is supposed to do. Then, there is always a section "Example". The big flaw of this section is that it only shows an exam...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management Future Consideration

Allow table column selection to use property control

I would like to be able to set a property control for selecting columns and use that to control the columns that are present (or not) within a table. I can currently do this through python scripting but I would like to do this directly via propert...
about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration
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