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    Add "Scan all Rows" to Import dialog for excel and text files - to improve column data type determination

    Spotfire sometimes incorrectly guesses the data type for Excel and text files because it scans only a portion of the rows in the file. Well add an option so it scans the whole thing so we can get that data type right the first time! SPSS Modeler h...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Alias Columns in Information Designer Using Custom SQL

    I've noticed that on occasions where I'm required to use custom SQL in my information links that I'm unable to alias the column names. I'm all for renaming columns within a DXP, but several of my users share information links. This can become cumb...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Infer data types by introspecting csv files

    The TDV standard File-Delimited adapter introspects all columns in the CSV file as VARCHAR type. It would save time if the data types were inferred by looking at the data in the CSV file.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 3 Already exists

    Support introspection of column comments from MS SQL Server

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    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Web Player - Scheduler to restart Node Manager services

    As per current way the Web Player works, images are cached in analyses and not refreshed. The only way to get an updated image would be to restart the service. The scheduler would then restart the Web Player service in question in order to get upd...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Range filter slider with Non-Linear Step Size

    If data is not linearly distributed, it would be very useful to be able to select a slider that enables one to move across the entire range of data (e.g. if there is a higher density of data on the order of 1e2 units and a lower density at 1e10 un...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire 2 Future Consideration

    Support for Azure Information Protection (AIP)

    Azure Information Protection is being adopted by Azure customers as an add-on layer of authorization at the document level. Applications reading protected documents (eg MS Excel worksheets) need to be AIP-aware. Current behavior from Spotfire: Spo...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Web UI - Language Localization

    Support localization of the Web UI.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 0 Planning to implement

    Restrict Data Export for Authors and Analysts on special Analysis files / Visualizations

    We have some confidential data which we'd like to protect and users not allow to export. This is possible for users with Consumer role. Here the admin easily de-flags "Allow table data export in Spotfire web clients" under Appearance before publis...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Export 2 Future Consideration

    More visibility on what filters are applied

    The request is to have theme-based filters, change font size, highlight colors for selected filters so that end-users know faster what filters are applied in the output. Currently, the filter panel is not user friendly, and user has only one optio...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Filters / User Experience 2 Future Consideration
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