This post explains how to restore a Spotfire DXP that has been deleted from the Spotfire library using the Spotfire database. Read on for instructions.
Read More »How to Restore a Spotfire DXP After DeletionA few weeks ago, a user reached out with a question regarding an IronPython script he was using to change the formatting on visualizations. I’ve never used IronPython for this purpose, but it was fun to learn how to format visualizations with IronPython in Spotfire. And, I wanted to share. Read on to learn more.
Read More »How to Format Visualizations With IronPythonTIBCO designed Spotfire to bring data into the application, wrangle it into a useable form, and display visualizations for analysis. It’s not really designed to modify source data, but that doesn’t mean that people don’t want to or that you can’t. In fact, it’s easy to modify individual values in Spotfire if you know where to look, just like clicking on a cell in Excel. Read on for more information.
Read More »How to Modify Individual Values in SpotfireOccasionally, I have a really hard time coming up with a good title for a post. This is one of those circumstances. But what I’m going to show you here is important if you want to sharpen your troubleshooting skills. A user reached out to me this week for help with a calculation on a cross table. It seemed like Spotfire was calculating inconsistently, but software doesn’t work that way. So, we had to be missing something. Would you have figured this out? How quickly would you have solved this puzzle? Can you find data hiding in Spotfire? Read on to learn more.
Read More »The Danger of Hiding Data in Spotfire
Spotfire does a good job of summarizing major changes each time a new release hits the deck. They always update the What’s New Page. But sometimes the change is either too small to include, or I just don’t get the time to go thru everything on that page. Occasionally, I just stumble upon updates. I don’t know when this feature was introduced, but I just noticed a “new to me” feature to help save space in Spotfire tooltips. Read more to find out what it is.
Read More »How to Save Space in Spotfire Tooltips
This week, a user asked me to export a filtered table from Spotfire and email it to him. I thought this would be quick with Spotfire Automation Services, but it rapidly turned into either “not possible” or “never gonna figure this out”. So, I reached out to TIBCO support for some assistance, and they were able to show me something new that I’d never seen in Automation Services. Read on to learn more.
Read More »Export a Filtered Table with Spotfire Automation ServicesThis post concludes my series on learning how to use Spotfire property controls. Yay! We will end the series with a tutorial on how to use slider property controls in Spotfire text areas. This post will feature three use cases, two involving numbers and one with strings. Read on to learn more about using label property controls in Spotfire.
Read More »Using Slider Property Controls in Spotfire Text AreasI am almost done with my series on learning how to use Spotfire property controls. We only have 2 controls left — labels and sliders. In this post, I’ll show you several different ways to use label property controls, and if you are registered for the TIBCO Analytics Forum, tune in to my breakout session for a look at using labels and IronPython scripts together. Read on to learn more about using label property controls in Spotfire.
Read More »Using Label Property Controls in Spotfire
Welcome to week five of learning to use property controls. So far, I have covered drop-downs, list boxes, list box (multiple select), and input property controls. This week, I’ll cover input (multiple lines) property controls in Spotfire text areas. This particular property control performs well when users want to copy and paste identifiers (ex. well name, API, customer ID) and see only the data for those identifiers. Read on to learn more.
Read More »Using Input (multiple lines) Property Controls in Spotfire Text Areas
Welcome to week four of learning to use property controls. So far, I have covered drop-downs, list boxes, and list box (multiple select). Today we cover two different ways to use input property controls. If you’re in oil and gas, input property controls will be your go-to for creating type curves in reservoir engineering workflows. Read on to learn more about creating input property controls in Spotfire text areas.
Read More »How to Use Input Property Controls in Spotfire Text Areas