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140 VOTE

Load Parquet, ORC and Avro data files from Amazon S3 and HDFS

Spotfire should be able to connect to and read Parquet, ORC and Avro files from Amazon S3 and HDFS.
about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 8 Future Consideration
132 VOTE

Support temporary tables in data connections

When retrieving on-demand data Spotfire's information designer supports creating temporary tables to avoid huge WHERE clauses (link) which can not only be a performance issue but infact hinder a query from being executed completelly. Temporary tab...
almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 5 Future Consideration
125 VOTE

New property controls: checkbox and radio button

Currently we only have checkboxes and radio buttons for filters, but often filters doesn't give enough flexibility to developers. How I imagine the new property controls to work: - checkbox: it would work similarly to List Box multiple select pr...
almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 7 Future Consideration
121 VOTE

Spotfire Analyst - Add more information for transformations in the Data Canvas

When displaying the transformations under the Data Canvas, when many transformations are performed, it is tricky to just have the transformation sequence number, without the name of a column for example. This would lead to Edit several times in th...
almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration
120 VOTE

in-visualization drill down on chart axes hierarchies and cross-table axes levels

Currently when you have a hierarchy on either a cross-table OR a visualisation axes ie. Year->Month->Day or Country->State->town... you cannot drill through the Hierachy - only expand it to show EVERY single value across every level of...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 12 Future Consideration
119 VOTE

Better support of web services

When you need to consume data from a web service in Spotfire there are different options like implementing a custom data source, develop an Iron Python script, use an R script on your Stats server or use something like Composite or Jboss Teiid tha...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 5 Future Consideration
117 VOTE

Calculated Columns that Filter With Data

Calculated Columns are powerful but often not useful if they don't recalculated based on filtered data. We've developed scrips to flag filtered records and calculate over that flag but this requires the user to click a button every time they filte...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 Future Consideration
117 VOTE

Allow more than 1000 values in a property control

The Spotfire property control drop down and listbox is currently limited to 1000 values, but we often need to let the user chose from 2000, or sometimes 3000 or more values. The limit of the property control should be increased and the design shou...
about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 5 Future Consideration
108 VOTE

Find dependencies within an analysis

There should be a better way to list / find the dependencies within a file so the consequences of changes can be foreseen. What stuff in my file will break if I decide to remove or change a: - (calculated) column- document property- marking- visua...
about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration
107 VOTE

Spotfire Analyst - Add multiple data tables at once

Spotfire 7.11 had the possibility to add several data tables at once (Information Links, files or others). Spotfire 10.3 does not have this possibility anymore. Very fast in 10.3 if only one data table needs to be added. Very inefficient when man...
over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration