Once I have a Spotfire visualization developed using a Spotfire client, what are the options for deployment available for me?
You save the Analysis file into library and that makes it available to the users via Web player.
Other option is you save an analysis as a DXP file and send it to the users, but that would required them to have fat client installed just as you have.
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I have created a button and Script Library file on my individual lotus notes client with domino designer now I want to install that feature in an organization as a plug-in or new feature that every lotus notes client can use it. So there are two things one an action button with lotusscript code and other is script library
kindly tell me how to publish or make a .exe or .msi file for these features and intall it on every client to use that feature
Thanks in advance
You need to create a new template with that features, give it a unique template name and then let your admin deploy that template to all or some of your users.
This all is basic knowledge that a developer should have when creating code for the complete organization.
I will NOT post you the steps to do these things as they have the possibility break all of your databases or even crash your server when done wrong.
And you would have no idea on how to troubleshoot such issues.
PLEASE: Go and get an external consultant to teach you this absolute basics or make a training... This will end in a mess if you don't...
I have created a dashboard in the Spotfire Desktop, and now I would like to export this dashboard with all its functionality into a webpage for internal use. How can I do it?
Spotfire Desktop does not support connecting to a Spotfire Server. it's a local-only application.
if you would like to "publish" your analysis to the web, you will need one of the following:
a TIBCO Spotfire Cloud account, where you can host any number of dashboards with various data connections and other features
an instance of TIBCO Spotfire Server, an instance of TIBCO Spotfire Node Manager, and, depending on what exactly you're trying to do, some development work using the JavaScript Mashup APIs.
Visualizations can be embedded into SharePoint web pages. However, niko is right. You still need Spotfire server.r
I have some industrial data that i wish to present in a spotfire dashboard to a client. I want to make the dashboard so that it would update automatically and I have not been able to find a tutorial on Tibco's site or here for how to do this.
It would be great if someone could tell me how to make spotfire look in a particular place (server, desktop, wherever) for a new .csv file, open it and create a defined set of visualizations and then mail a pdf to the client.
I have been through the spotfire automation services manual but I can't find a specific guide to what I need it to do.
All help appreciated.
I went back and read thru the whole question again, including the other person's answer. In order to be able to do what you want to do, you need to have Spotfire Server and Spotfire Automation Services. Automation Services in a product that you have to purchase separately from Spotfire, although it is bundled with the Analyst client.
In your question you said -- It would be great if someone could tell me how to make spotfire look in a particular place (server, desktop, wherever) for a new .csv file, open it and create a defined set of visualizations and then mail a pdf to the client.
I made the assumption that you knew you needed Automation Services to do this. All of my answers have been based around the use of Automation Services. That's the only way to push an email to a user that I know of. After you setup the Automation Services job, you also have to use Active Batch to schedule the Automation Services job, which I noted as part of the original 3 step process.
I want to make the dashboard so that it would update automatically and
I have not been able to find a tutorial on Tibco's site or here for
how to do this.
What you want to do is schedule updates to your linked data. What this will do is re-query the data-source at the specified schedule (once a day, twice an hour, etc) that you specify and cache it on the web server.
Here is the documentation for that.
Schedule Updates
Scheduling updates using Spotfire Server (be sure to navigate down the sub items on the left)
Monitoring Schedule Updates
It would be great if someone could tell me how to make spotfire look
in a particular place (server, desktop, wherever) for a new .csv file,
open it and create a defined set of visualizations and then mail a pdf
to the client.
For this, you still want to use scheudle updates for the first part after you have linked your analysis to your csv file. Your file name will have to remain the same for spotfire to pick it up unless you customize this with some scripting. Once that is complete, you'll want to use Automation Services to complete your mailing a pdf.
Automation Services Tutorial
Automation Services User Manual
Generally speaking, this is a three step process.
1. In the desktop app, create a report (File -- Export -- to PDF -- prepared report. In this step you are creating the export and telling Spotfire specifically what to export. Where to find the report
2. In the desktop app, create the Automation Services Job (Tools -- Automation Services Job Builder). All jobs start with opening the file. Then you create the export. Then send the email. Sample active batch jobe
3. Now, you have to automate the task. This can be done with Windows Task Scheduler or Active Batch.
Those are the high-level steps. There is a lot of syntax and detail in each of the steps, but this should get you started. Please reply with more detailed questions on any one of the steps.
Is it possible to update the screen tips and descriptions of fields in Cognos Analytics 11.0.8 dynamically? We want to have a Data Definition Catalog and use it to update Cognos. The only methods I can find are fairly manual, including BPS Meta Manager.
Look at the steps to integrate InfoSphere Business Glossary into Cognos. I haven't done it, but I've heard people say that the configuration steps can be used for other catalogs, besides the InfoSphere product.
Since the configuration is just a URL, you could point this to a web server you control. Then use the web server logs to identify what Cognos appends to the URL or posts to the URL to identify the field.
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ug_cra.doc/t_configure_business_glossary.html#Configure_Business_Glossary
Is it possible to automate the publish of dxp file to the server. What I want to achieve is build a command line tool, user navigates to the dxp file and runs a command (let's say publish), this should save the file to the library without opening spotfire client (something similar to running spotfire in Headless mode).
I got to know that Spotfire Automation Services can be of some help in this task, but I have never used the automation services and don't know how to install or find the automation services module. Any help or direction is highly appreciated. Thanks
Automation Services is a licensed framework from TIBCO that lets you automate several tasks including Open or Save analysis to library, replace or remap data sources, run alerts etc.
But if your sole requirement is to publish analysis to library then use the import-library-content on command line, or save it in a batch file and use IronPython to trigger that as using button from the DXP.
See API docs of import-library-content for usage.
you can check Google for Automation Services and see more details on its capabilities, but I'm pretty sure your use case is covered. Spotfire does not offer this feature out of the box (except maybe using the admin command tool, but that'd only be for admins).
your organization will need to buy a license for AS, since it's a separate product in the Spotfire suite. talk to your TIBCO rep or send me a PM.
Yes, you can use Automation Services for this. Automation Services needs to be licensed from TIBCO, but it provides a framework that will allow you to create job.xml files which specify a list of tasks for Automation Services to execute. You can then submit the job file to a web service when you want the tasks to be executed.