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Passing Marked Records to External Web Pages - Part II

Tip of the Week — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 02:55:00 GMT

Last week we discussed how to create a Mashup to send information from the Spotfire Web Player to an external web site. As a follow up to this, you may have a requirement to do this from Spotfire Professional only (not from the Spotfire Web Player). In...(read more)

Passing Marked Records to External Web Pages

Tip of the Week — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 20:10:00 GMT

In previous tips we have discussed how to use the Web Player APIs to define what data to load into TIBCO Spotfire. In this tip, we will show how you can take interactions from a given analysis file (like marking) in the Web Player and send related information...(read more)

Adding Bullet Graphs to Graphical Tables and Text Areas in TIBCO Spotfire

Tip of the Week — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 02:58:00 GMT

Do you use dynamic items, a concept introduced in TIBCO Spotfire 4.0 and discussed in a previous tip of the week ? These items, that is, sparklines, icons and calculated values, are available in Graphical Tables and Text Areas intended to provide dynamic...(read more)

Performing a YTD Comparison on a Partial Year

Tip of the Week — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:36:00 GMT

One common question we see a lot is how to compare and analyze data from one year to the next. There are a variety of ways to do this. Let’s assume we have data like shown below, which includes transactional data of sales by sales rep and by region for...(read more)

Creating a Dynamic Top Ten Chart - Part II

Tip of the Week — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:04:00 GMT

In a previous tip , we discussed how to leverage Property Controls to create a Tip 10 list based off various categories. This tip assumed the data was setup in such a way that each category was its own column. (For example, every row had a customer id...(read more)

Creating Multiple Columns From One

Tip of the Week — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:46:00 GMT

Throughout this tip of the week series, we have displayed many solutions which utilized the combination of Property Controls and Script Controls. These two features, when used together, can create endless solutions in Spotfire. This week we will look...(read more)

Writing and saving comments inside a Spotfire Analysis file

Tip of the Week — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:24:00 GMT

Many times, users would like to collaborate with each other in the same Analysis file but don't have a specific collaboration tool, like TIBBR ( http://www.tibbr.com ) to use. By leveraging the power of Property Controls and Script Controls , you...(read more)

Creating a Dynamic Top Ten Chart

Tip of the Week — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 22:21:00 GMT

We’re back! This tip will be the first one of our fall series. Thank you to everyone who reached out via email to check on the status of the Tip of the Week Blog. It was nice to see how many followers we have who wanted the tips to return. This week we...(read more)

Setting Document Properties and Executing Scripts when an Analysis opens

Tip of the Week — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:38:00 GMT

By using the ‘History Arrows’ navigation option, which is available starting in 4.0, it is possible to setup a page so that Scripts and Document Properties are loaded before the user starts the analysis process. First, when you setup the analysis file...(read more)

Adding a Filter Control into a Text Area

Tip of the Week — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:21:00 GMT

Many times authors will want to allow a user to filter out values in a given column, but they do not want to expose the Filter Panel, as it can add confusion and complexity for a consumer. The workaround has been to use a Property Control to provide this...(read more)

Guiding the User Through an Analysis Without Showing all Pages Available

Tip of the Week — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:48:00 GMT

When setting up an analysis file, there are times when you want the consumer to be guided through the analysis and not be distracted by the different pages available to click through. In version 4.0, this can be accomplished by setting the Page Navigation...(read more)

Executing Scripts within other Scripts

Tip of the Week — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:54:00 GMT

There are some situations where you will want to execute a script from within another script. This could be to combine multiple scripts into one single action call (from a button, link, or image inside a Text Area), or it could be to enable the execution...(read more)

Information At a Glance with Graphics Tables

Tip of the Week — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:46:00 GMT

Many managers and consumers need methods to quickly see the state of their business, including Key Performance Indictors (KPI). In addition, they may need to quickly spot changes in these values over time and also whether the values are trending up or...(read more)

Limiting Data to Display in Visualizations in TIBCO Spotfire 4.0

Tip of the Week — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:45:00 GMT

There are often scenarios where you will need to limit the data to display in a given visualization. In most of the approaches, the solution is to filter data. However, this filtering is not directly tied to a visualization. Rather, it is tied to a Filtering...(read more)

Creating Property Control Groups that do not automatically update Expressions and Calculations

Tip of the Week — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:54:00 GMT

In certain scenarios, there is a requirement to have multiple Property Controls that drive a given analysis file. The values behind these Property Controls will all be used in a series of expressions and calculations. However, the way these expressions...(read more)