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    Add an overview of actualy used fields to the data canvas

    Report builders often start out with a data table with as many fields as they can think of. When a report becomes stable it is useful to be able to easily identify the fields that are actually used in the report visualisations and transformations....
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    Create and edit data functions in the Spotfire web client

    I need to be able to create new data functions and use and edit existing ones in Spotfire Business Author
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Support JSON data type of PostgreSQL

    PosgreSQL supports JSON format from version 9.3. Unfortunately, Spotfire doesn't support JSON data type when working with a PostgreSQL database like the following link. https://docs.tibco.com/pub/sfire-analyst/7.11.0/doc/html/en-US/TIB_sfire-ana...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Add option to not cache the data from a data function when saving

    I frequently use Data Functions to load data from external data sources (e.g. to call RESTful APIs to extract data). The main problem I have with this approach is that the most recent data is saved inside the analysis file. This has 2 knock-on eff...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Document list of OS processes constituting TDV server

    A complete list of OS processes constituting TDV server needs to be documented in the Administration guide. It would make clear exact which OS processes should be monitored by a management tool, for example.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / monitoring 0 Future Consideration

    sync updated data function in library to analysis

    If data function is added via Transformation, currently one has to perform below steps to sync it from library to analysis if the script in library is updated 1. Navigate to Data Canvas. 2. Select the relevant transformation by clicking on Data a...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Apply filters to exclude specific strings in Introspect

    In Introspect, the ability to Introspect only resources that contain specific strings already exists. reference: https://docs.tibco.com/pub/tdv/8.8.0/doc/html/en-US/StudioHelp/index.html#UserGuide/Setting_Introspection_Filters_on_a_Resource.html?...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data catalog / metadata 1 Future Consideration

    Group from marked categories in Spotfire Consumer

    Group from marked categories feature is currently a feature that is only open to Business Author Licenses and Power Users. We want this feature to be available for web player license also. Reason: Business author license / Power User license allow...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 6 Unlikely to implement

    Indexes are created when cache tables are created for singular tables.

    Indexes are created when creating a cache table with multiple tables when an index label is assigned to the view when the cache table is created. However, when creating a cache table for a single table, the index is not created. There must be situ...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 1 Unlikely to implement

    Add ability to specify column data types when importing programmatically from Excel.

    I am currently running a script which will replace data tables with excel sheets through a simple file explorer interface. However I am noticing that Spotfire is automatically guessing the data type of a column based on the first n rows of data im...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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