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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In previous tips , we have discussed how you can add HTML directly into a Text Area. To take this one step further, you may want to take Property Controls that you have already created and then add them into a HTML table or CSS positioning element to...

In this tip we will discuss how to update the formatting on a Visualization's tooltips. Assume we have a Bar Chart which displays the sum of sales for each year in our data table. What if we then want to change the y-axis to show the Percentage of...

There are some situations where you will want to have a Drop-down list Property Control display fixed values. This is easily accomplished by using the ‘Fixed values’ option for setting the property value, and then entering your fixed values and their...

In last week’s post, we learned how to create custom Property Controls in the form of Radio Buttons and Checkboxes. As it turns out, this solution works well using the Web Player from Internet Explorer, but the wingdings fonts do not display as they should...

This is the first post after the Tip of the Week blog’s summer hiatus. We are back now and will start out with a series of tips related to using Text Areas to create Guided Analysis files. In this first tip back we will discuss how to create new Property...

The concept of Document Properties has existed in TIBCO Spotfire for quite some time. In version 3.1, the concept of properties was extended and included the ability to expose controls to allow consumers to change property values. When this update happened...

This article targets: TIBCO Spotfire 3.3 and forward TibbrTool_1.3.zip Introduction This article describes a tool that integrates TIBCO Spotfire with tibbr in order to share and discuss an insight or visualization with others. We use the improved Bookmarks...

In earlier posts , we discussed how to share your analysis with others using a variety of approaches. With the release of version 3.3 of TIBCO Spotfire, there are quite a few more approaches available. The major update is that Spotfire now provides a...

Before Spotfire version 3.3, time hierarchies were treated just like all other hierarchies. In version 3.3, a new built-in hierarchy is available specific to dates and times. They use the new BinByDateTime() function to create the expression as shown...