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Shift transformations in data canvas

When analysing data, sometimes many transformations are needed. When using add columns, you may realize that the transformation shouldn't have been done on the original table, but at the very end of the result data table, or vice versa. Then you h...
2 days ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

Make memory consumption of visualizations visible

When working with "big data" it is important to keep memory requirements under control and oftentimes it is necessary to optimize analyses to reduce memory needs. There is actually two main sources driving Spotfire's memory needs: The size of the ...
9 days ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Needs Info

Provide a setting to control automatic column addition in joins.

Currently, for every join, columns that were added at a later moment to one of the sub/right tables are automatically joined into all joins where this table is used. In most cases this is not desired. Proposed feature should work by either turning...
about 2 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
118 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...
over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

Split a data table into two or more data tables based on expression

I need to split a data table into two or more data tables based on logic I can provide as an expression. I know I can do this using a few steps and filter transformations in the data canvas, but would ideally want to be able to do this in one plac...
about 2 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management 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...
almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

Data models should be possible to share and reuse

Our data models are often very complex with many add rows, add columns and transformations. It would save us a lot of time if these could be reused. Maybe they can be stored as library items.
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

Adjust order of data tables, in Data Table Properties dialog and Tag Panel

We use lots of data tables in a report and sometimes have to add new ones etc. Not all of them are meant for users, but they all appear in the tag panel. Now the users have to use the tag panel to make certain inputs to the analysis. To make the t...
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 8 Future Consideration

Check data (during load) for quality and changes in column values

Users appreciate Spotfire’s ability to match column name changes during data reloading. This ideas proposes the ability for Spotfire to check data (during load) for quality and changes in column values (especially when metadata changes or when dat...
2 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

Spotfire Analyst - More details on data loading / transformation

For analysis performance monitoring or troubleshooting on the user side, the field Data loaded at is not sufficient and could lead to confusion. More information like these would be useful: Start time: (timestamp including seconds) End time: (time...
over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration