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    Do cache refresh in push down where possible

    In case the cache table is in the same database as all the other tables contributing to the cache, the cache refresh should run in full push down. This instead of selecting and bringing all the data from the database to the TDV server and then sen...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 5 Already exists

    Allow customization of the CREATE TABLE DDL for cache creation

    Allow a developer to customize the CREATE TABLE DDL when creating cache tables so that specific clauses for logging, distributed by, tpartitioning or storage parameters can be added to the CREATE statement. This could be handed edited by the devel...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 1 Future Consideration

    Determine column types using type information in data set rather than data values

    Spotfire infers column types by examining the values in (the first 1000) rows of the data set being loaded. This generally works well but makes mistakes often enough that manual correction becomes laborious. A case in point is when real-valued dat...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Option to limit web service API invocation for specified time

    This feature is to help control load on the TDV server from web service calls. Organizations with hardware limits or web services that pull large amounts of data could use this feature to keep load on their server in check without causing unintend...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / web services 0 Future Consideration

    Polygon marking in maps and scatterplots

    Sometimes I like to mark data in a polygon shape. I use Spotfire's Lasso marking for this, which is nice, but in some cases it would have been easier to make exact markings using a polygon marking mode to exactly click on the points of the polygon.
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Modify the thickness of gridlines

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    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    Scale Axis Lines need to be darker in Trellis plots

    Spotfire graphics submitted for publication are criticized by reviewers for axis lines which are too light. Research on the support website indicated that the Visual Theme settings for Visualization Scale line color could be used to change the col...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Event Based Scheduling (Trigger from a file or schedule)

    Other BI tools that we use have the concept of event based scheduling. So in addition to a schedule firing at a given time/day and frequency the schedule only fires if a designated trigger file can be found or another schedule that this schedule i...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 4 Future Consideration

    Allow AS 4.x operator schema to be set by the schema asserted on an input port.

    Please refer to Case #02057640 The goal is to have a reusable module that does not need to change itself, but gets its schemas (and the AS operator schema) from context.
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire Streaming 0 Future Consideration

    Average Line by group in Lines & Curves

    Scenario Scatter plot with multiple y-values per x-value (categorical). Goal Via Lines & Curves setting, add a line that's calculated per x-value - i.e., a way to generate an average of the y-axis values for each distinct x-axis value, then co...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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