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Spotfire allows a user to hide a column which is a precedent to a calculated column. But there is no way to unhide the column or see the columns that are hidden.
Since the columns still exist, there should be a way to reverse the action of hiding them.
Alternatively, the ability to hide columns should be removed if there is no way to un-hide them.
https://community.tibco.com/questions/there-way-unhide-hidden-column-spotfire-data-table#node-985841
I need this... 3 years ago, or whenever the ability to hide columns was added.
This feature (hide a column) doesn't make sense, if the column can't be done visible again by the user. This is also a problem with the consumer in the webplayer. The consumer user can hide a column, but he can's set it visible again.
This would be very useful. Hidden columns are now listed in the Data Canvas view like a transformation so could there be a simple delete option on the transformation step?
Just a thought: In the API, there's a property in the DataColumn Class called Visible. I don't know if that's connected to the hiding, but you could easily test whether your hidden columns is set invisble using a python script. And also make columns visible, which might unhide them.