The content-type of a column is a more detailed description of the contents of a column than the data type alone can provide. It is used to determine how the values of this column will get rendered in Spotfire visualizations.
The steps below are describing how to set a content-type for a column in Spotfire:
- Click in the Spotfire menu on Data > Column properties
- Select the data table of interest
- Select the column of interest
- Select the Properties tab
- Select the ContentType property and click on Edit
- Type the appropriate content-type in the Value field and click on OK
- Click on OK