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Better line specific calculations

If I compare calculated columns to Excel, Spotfire is better insofar that a calculations that is consistently applied to a whole column is not prone to the copy/paste errors inherent in Excel. However the kind of expression that uses the value cal...
almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 0 Future Consideration

Text Function - Calculated column - InitCap String Function

Objective to make the string init caps. Eg. Alpha We have a workaround where we can take the 1st character of the string and make it upper then append it it would be great, if we have in built function making first char of a string upper and o...
almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 Future Consideration

Produce warning when changing engine type in data function

Users can change the engine type in a data function without resetting all of the code, inputs, and outputs, which is fantastic. However it is maybe a little too easy to change this. I found just an accidental touch of the mouse scrolling switched...
about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

Add expression function to convert Temperature

This is one of those simple things that you'd think would be in the tool already, but just isn't. Here's an example of how it's implemented in Excel. I would use the exact same approach. https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/excel/1254-excel-co...
about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

Bi directional integration with Clarity

Today Clarity can be used in front of Spotfire for Data cleaning (and also could be used to import more easily xml or json files). Could be really great to integrate Clarity from our new source view and see rules to clean data from Sprofire and m...
about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

Preserve row index order even after join operation

As per current Spotfire design, when doing the join, there's no row order guarantee afterwards, and it may change depending on algorithm used internally. It seems we used different algorithms for different data sizes because of memory / cpu tradeo...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

Enable caching in Expression Function

Data Function has a built-in Allow Caching option to avoid redundant run when input parameters don't change, while Expression Function does not.
9 months ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration