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    Store calculated columns in data connections

    If you have a lot of calculated columns in your analysis file, it's frustrating that the only way to share these is by duplicating the analysis file. If they could be stored in data connections these could be reused across multiple dashboards. The...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Search and locate connections based on guid

    Connection to table shows connection name and not GUID. Name is not necessarily unique Source Properties on tables built from a connection does have GUID. This makes reverse trace harder. Searching on NAME is slow and may return duplicates or si...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    All connectors should be available in the web clients' flyout

    I expect all connectors to be available in Business Author. Authoring connections to my data sources is the only reason for me to download the Spotfire Windows client.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Add an Ignore Zeros option in an Unpivot transformation

    I often have a table with a large number of zero values ( rather than null values) in soem columns that I then need to Unpivot. This results in a table with a large number of rows where the valu column is zero and this impacts overall performance....
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Modify OData Connection via IronPython API

    In cases where consumers may have various OData URI's, it would be nice if they could change the URI directly from a property control input field, and update the underlying data without entering Analyst. This might ideally be done through IronPyth...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    TERR Graphical limitations

    One of the requests that I receive most from users who are R and Python programmers, is the request that within Spotfire they could create graphics using the open source language packages. I know that currently the TERR engine does not provide gra...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Newer version available message

    This message shows up after some upgrade is performed on the server such as a hotfix, new package or something within the same version: "You are running version 14.4 of the Spotfire client, but a newer version of 14.4 is also available. If you do ...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    Split a column into rows

    I have a column with multiple values inside, with a separator between each value. The number of values is not the same on every row. If I use the standard split column feature, I will generate a number of columns corresponding to my max number of ...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    DATE datatype must be available in Cloudera Hive native data connector

    DATE datatype is not available in Cloudera Hive native data connector though the DATE datatype is supported in HDI. So, when migrating from HDI to Cloudera HIVE, we are facing issues as we need to convert all the DATE datatype from DATE to TIMESTA...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    From library, open item on new tab

    Sometimes I want to open two analyst files using webplayer in order to compare one data, so on that case, I would like to be able to do right click on library item and click open on a new tab to open the second while still navigate on the origin l...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Library 3 Already exists
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