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• Marking Records using Property Controls

  By default Property Controls cannot be attached to a marking selection. However, by combining Script Controls with Property Controls, we can create the desired functionality. The first step is to create the Property Control(s). There are a variety of... Posted Aug 08 2010, 08:27 PM by Tip of the Week Filed under: Properties, Marking, Script Controls

• Filtering values to display in a Property Control list box

  There are many times when you want to use a Property Control to display a list of Columns, but only show a subset of Columns rather than all of them. This could be because only certain columns are relevant for your analysis, or it could be because you... Posted Jul 18 2010, 06:54 PM by Tip of the Week Filed under: Properties, 3.1, Script Controls, FIltering Property Control values

• Storing State in your Script Controls

  Using Script Controls can really increase the analytic power of your Spotfire files and make it easier for people to search for insight. Since an entire script is wrapped in a single transaction, tasks like looping through filters will only update the... Posted Jul 10 2010, 06:53 PM by Tip of the Week Filed under: Properties, Script Controls, Step Through Filtering

• Horizontal Bar Charts in TIBCO Spotfire through TIBCO Spotfire Statistics Services

  Ever want to use a Horizontal Bar Chart in TIBCO Spotfire? Sure, you can use the SDK to build a custom visualization, but that is alot of overhead. With the ability to execute S+ and R from within the Spotfire platform, there is an easier way to accomplish... Posted Jun 12 2010, 08:23 PM by Tip of the Week Filed under: S+, Properties, Details Visualizatoins, 3.1, Data Functions, horizontal bars

• Cascading Property Control Drop downs

  Last week we discussed how to create cascading Property Control Drop downs using Data On-Demand. This is done using Information Links. If you do not use Information Links, this week’s tip will show you how to accomplish this without using Information... Posted Jun 06 2010, 07:44 PM by Tip of the Week Filed under: Properties, Custom Expression, 3.1, Cascading Drop-downs

• Cascading Property Control Drop downs with On-Demand Data Tables

  One of the nice features of TIBCO Spotfire 3.1 is the enhanced ability to load data on-demand. In previous versions, when loading data from an Information Link, you could prompt a user to select specific values to load. The downside of this is when you... Posted May 30 2010, 07:54 PM by Tip of the Week Filed under: Properties, 3.1, On-Demand Data

• Dynamically Creating Plots with Property Controls

  There are many times a user may only want to see one specific plot at a given point in time. In this scenario, you can create all the different types of plots a user may want to see and link them from a cover page using bookmarks. However, it takes a... Posted May 22 2010, 07:35 PM by Tip of the Week Filed under: Properties, Node Navigation Methods, 3.1

• Creating a HTML Editor for your Text Areas

  One of the updates from version 3.0 to 3.1 is that Text Areas now use HTML rather than RTF (Rich Text Format). However, there is no way to enter raw HTML directly in the Text Area. By using a combination of a Property Control (to enter the HTML) and a... Posted May 15 2010, 02:48 PM by Tip of the Week Filed under: Properties, Script Controls, HTML Editor

• Using Property Controls to Filter Data

  Property Controls are very useful for allowing consumers to affect values in an analysis file, like what to display on a given axis, but they do not work directly with marking or filtering. However, it is possible to hook property controls up to affect... Posted Apr 24 2010, 07:14 AM by Tip of the Week Filed under: Properties, Custom Expression, Calculated Columns, 3.1, Script Controls

• Conditional Coloring to Highlight Top and Bottom Values

  In this week's post, we will introduce you to another excited new feature of TIBCO Spotfire 3.1, Conditional Coloring. Let’s assume you have a Data Table which provides sales data for a particular store. The sales are broken up into three separate... Posted Mar 13 2010, 02:15 PM by Tip of the Week Filed under: Properties, 3.1, Conditional Coloring

• Predictive Analytics with TIBCO Spotfire and S+ or R

  Last week we discussed an important new concept in TIBCO Spotfire version 3.1, scenario analysis. This week we will continue learning about new 3.1 features by discussing another type of analytics: Predictive Analytics. With TIBCO Spotfire version 3.1... Posted Mar 06 2010, 06:43 AM by Tip of the Week Filed under: S+, Properties, 3.1, Dat Functions, Predictive Analytics

• Using TIBCO Spotfire version 3.1 for Scenario Analysis

  I’d like to be one of the first to start introducing you to the amazing new features of TIBCO Spotfire Professional 3.1. This will kick off an arc of tips related to 3.1 features. This tip will introduce you to the updated Property capabilities. If you... Posted Feb 28 2010, 06:41 AM by Tip of the Week Filed under: Properties, Custom Expression, Scenario Analysis, 3.1

• Searching inside TIBCO Spotfire Professional

  There are a variety of ways to search inside TIBCO Spotfire. Some are designed for the end users and some are designed for the administrator. This tip will walk you through the different types of search capabilities, and what can be done with them. Global... Posted Nov 27 2009, 06:23 PM by Tip of the Week Filed under: Properties, Find, Search

• Using Global Variables inside Spotfire

  Have you ever built an analysis file and either needed to enter the same values in many different plots or enter values that changed dynamically? If so, this tip is for you. TIBCO Spotfire provides the ability to create properties on three components... Posted Sep 30 2009, 10:26 PM by Tip of the Week Filed under: Properties, Custom Expression, SDK, Global Variables, Document Properties

• Your daily commits from subversion using SQL Server xml bulk import

  I wanted to get a good overview of our subversion commits and found that I can get the some of the data from subversion in xml using --xml flag. To get the actual data into a database without writing to much code I found a good way of bulk importing xml... Posted Dec 15 2008, 02:22 AM by Daniel Vulcan with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Properties, Information Links, Data, Import