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Status Future Consideration
Product Spotfire
Categories Data Management
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 29, 2018

Create a way to identify and/or clean up unused objects in Spotfire DXP (Calculated columns, Property Controls)

This could be a multi-level feature:

Option 1 – Flag whether the column/ Property Control is used in any other Column, Property Control, Viz, Data function

                Answers the question: will something in the report break if I delete this object? Example: Yes

 

Option 2 – List what the dependent is

                Answers the question: What will break if I delete this object? Example: (Tab2 >> Barchart3 >> Y.Axis)

 

Option 3 – Give Spotfire a ‘self-cleaning’ feature to identify and delete all unused objects (maybe something similar to Windows’ disk cleanup feature).

 

Notes:

Even if Option 3 is implemented, Option 1 & 2 would still be useful for developing on unfamiliar reports.

There would still be value in this even if it was limited to “Spotfire controlled” dependents, like Calculated columns and Visuals and not “user defined” things like IronPython scripts.

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    Feb 15, 2019

    This is exactly what I have been looking for sometime and I did not realise that I was not alone.