TIBCO Spotfire Web Player Release Notes

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1 Software Release 7.0 February 2015 Two-Second Advantage

2 2 Important Information SOME TIBCO SOFTWARE EMBEDS OR BUNDLES OTHER TIBCO SOFTWARE. USE OF SUCH EMBEDDED OR BUNDLED TIBCO SOFTWARE IS SOLELY TO ENABLE THE FUNCTIONALITY (OR PROVIDE LIMITED ADD-ON FUNCTIONALITY) OF THE LICENSED TIBCO SOFTWARE. THE EMBEDDED OR BUNDLED SOFTWARE IS NOT LICENSED TO BE USED OR ACCESSED BY ANY OTHER TIBCO SOFTWARE OR FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE. USE OF TIBCO SOFTWARE AND THIS DOCUMENT IS SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF A LICENSE AGREEMENT FOUND IN EITHER A SEPARATELY EXECUTED SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT, OR, IF THERE IS NO SUCH SEPARATE AGREEMENT, THE CLICKWRAP END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT WHICH IS DISPLAYED DURING DOWNLOAD OR INSTALLATION OF THE SOFTWARE (AND WHICH IS DUPLICATED IN THE LICENSE FILE) OR IF THERE IS NO SUCH SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT OR CLICKWRAP END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT, THE LICENSE(S) LOCATED IN THE LICENSE FILE(S) OF THE SOFTWARE. USE OF THIS DOCUMENT IS SUBJECT TO THOSE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, AND YOUR USE HEREOF SHALL CONSTITUTE ACCEPTANCE OF AND AN AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY THE SAME. This document contains confidential information that is subject to U.S. and international copyright laws and treaties. No part of this document may be reproduced in any form without the written authorization of TIBCO Software Inc. TIBCO, Two-Second Advantage, TIBCO Spotfire, TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R, TIBCO Spotfire Server, TIBCO Spotfire Web Player, TIBCO Spotfire Statistics Services, S-PLUS, and TIBCO Spotfire S+ are either registered trademarks or trademarks of TIBCO Software Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other product and company names and marks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only. THIS SOFTWARE MAY BE AVAILABLE ON MULTIPLE OPERATING SYSTEMS. HOWEVER, NOT ALL OPERATING SYSTEM PLATFORMS FOR A SPECIFIC SOFTWARE VERSION ARE RELEASED AT THE SAME TIME. SEE THE README FILE FOR THE AVAILABILITY OF THIS SOFTWARE VERSION ON A SPECIFIC OPERATING SYSTEM PLATFORM. THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. THIS DOCUMENT COULD INCLUDE TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN; THESE CHANGES WILL BE INCORPORATED IN NEW EDITIONS OF THIS DOCUMENT. TIBCO SOFTWARE INC. MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE PRODUCT(S) AND/OR THE PROGRAM(S) DESCRIBED IN THIS DOCUMENT AT ANY TIME. THE CONTENTS OF THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE MODIFIED AND/OR QUALIFIED, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, BY OTHER DOCUMENTATION WHICH ACCOMPANIES THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY RELEASE NOTES AND "READ ME" FILES. Copyright TIBCO Software Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. TIBCO Software Inc. Confidential Information

3 3 Contents TIBCO Spotfire Documentation and Support Services...4 New Features...5 Changes in Functionality... 8 Deprecated and Removed Features...9 Migration and Compatibility...10 Closed Issues...11 Known Issues...12

4 4 TIBCO Spotfire Documentation and Support Services All TIBCO documentation is available on the TIBCO Documentation site, which can be found here: TIBCO Spotfire Web Player Documentation The following documents for this product can be found on the TIBCO Documentation site: TIBCO Spotfire Web Player Release Notes TIBCO Spotfire Consumer/Business Author User's Guide TIBCO Spotfire Web Player API Reference TIBCO Spotfire Web Player Installation and Configuration Manual TIBCO Spotfire Web Player License Agreement Product System Requirements For a list of system requirements for this product and other TIBCO Spotfire products, visit this site: How to Contact TIBCO Support For comments or problems with this manual or the software it addresses, contact TIBCO Support as follows: For an overview of TIBCO Support, and information about getting started with TIBCO Support, visit this site: If you already have a valid maintenance or support contract, visit this site: Entry to this site requires a user name and password. If you do not have a user name, you can request one. How to Join TIBCOmmunity TIBCOmmunity is an online destination for TIBCO customers, partners, and resident experts. It is a place to share and access the collective experience of the TIBCO community. TIBCOmmunity offers forums, blogs, and access to a variety of resources. To register, go to:

5 5 New Features The following new features have been added to version of TIBCO Spotfire Consumer/Business Author and Web Player. Recommendations in Business Author Spotfire Recommendations is a new, easier and faster way of creating visualizations, learning about your data and letting you get to insights quicker regardless of whether you are an experienced analyst or a newcomer to visual analytics. With Spotfire Recommendations you can look at your data from different angles, discover new insights, and get a visual overview of your data. New Data Panel in Business Author Spotfire 7.0 allows you to get a better overview of the loaded data in the new data panel. Here, all columns in the data are visible. By default, the columns are divided into categories such as number, category, or time, which makes it easier to find what you are looking for. The data panel is the basis for interacting with your columns; you can grab a column and drop it on the visualization, rename a column, delete a column or filter the data based on the column values. New Visual Themes You can now view your analysis or dashboard using: a new design of the classical Spotfire light theme a brand new dark theme a custom theme, if a custom theme has been defined by the author of your analysis/dashboard You change themes using the Visual theme button in the toolbar. Overview of Changed Filters An overview of changed filters is provided in the filters panel and in the new data panel. Hierarchy Slider for TimeSpan Columns Just like for DateTime columns, columns of type TimeSpan now automatically get a Hierarchy slider. Improved Default Titles for Visualizations With the new default title (${AutoTitle}) used when creating a new visualization, the title changes dynamically to reflect the current configuration of the visualization. Easy Edit of Visualization Title Double-clicking in a visualization title bar will now allow you to edit the visualization title. Grouping of Categories The new easy-to-use grouping feature allows you to combine two or more marked categories displayed in the visualization into one. This is very useful in several situations: When you want to compare the total of more than one category against other categories. For example, when you want to compare the sales in (Boston + New York) against sales in Los Angeles. When you spot spelling errors or alternative spellings that cause data to be split into more categories than needed. When you want to compare, for instance, the top 10 categories against the rest. Quick Configuration of Visualizations in Business Author It is now easier and faster to configure most visualization properties in Business Author. You can directly select configuration options after clicking (left-clicking) on the axis of visualization. A set of configuration options are shown in a pop-up menu. The available options vary between different

6 6 visualization types and which axis you click on. On touch devices, tapping on an axis invokes the pop-up menu. Configure Map Charts in Business Author It is now possible to create map charts in Business Author. You can select to create map charts with either one marker layer or one feature (shape) layer. If the data contains longitude and latitude, these values are used to place markers or shapes. If the data has no longitude or latitude, Spotfire places markers or shapes based on geocoding (translating the name of known states, cities, etc., into geographical positions). Improved Context Menu in Business Author The context menu that is available through right-click in the visualizations has been extended with two new entries: Duplicate visualization Properties (reaches the visualization properties pop-over) Drag-and-Drop Hierarchy Level from the Data Panel to a Visualization It is now possible drag a sub-level in a dimension hierarchy to the X-axis, in order to only show the sub-hierarchy of interest in the visualization. The data panel is available in Business Author. Drag-and-Drop in Business Author In Spotfire 7.0 the web authoring client Business Author introduces the capability to configure visualizations through drag-and-drop. For example, you can easily add a column to the color axis by dragging it from the data panel to the color drop target in the center of the visualization, or to the color axis in the legend. Drag-and-Drop Data into Business Author It is now possible to load data into Business Author by dragging and dropping the data, either in the library browser (to create a new analysis) or in the Business Author analytical client (to add data to an existing analysis) Improved Excel Data Loading in Business Author When loading data from an Excel file, Business Author now allows you to select which worksheet to open and gives you a preview of the data in the worksheet. Mark From Legend Spotfire 7.0 introduces the ability to mark elements in the visualization by clicking on categories in the legend. This is useful especially in visualizations with many graphical elements and lets you compare the marked category with the other categories. Mark from legend works for the color and shape axis for categorical and binned columns. Map Chart Geocoding Improvements Several improvements have been made to the Map Chart geocoding, including: Improved center point calculation. For instance, the marker for Florida is now better placed. Most common geocoding tables are now sorted by population. This gives a better result when the geocoding is ambiguous, like, when geocoding on a city column only and several cities with the same name exist. Cache and Preload SBDF Files on the Web Player Server In order to quickly create and share map chart visualizations that uses geocoding tables, and to quickly open SBDF files from the library, it is now possible to cache and preload the SBDF files stored in the library. Scheduled Updates Cache

7 7 It is now possible to cache data from scheduled analyses on disk to be able to reload the analyses faster after restarting the Web Player.

8 8 Changes in Functionality The following are changes in functionality in version of TIBCO Spotfire Consumer/Business Author and Web Player. Tooltips Tooltips are shown when moving the X-axis zoom slider. Display Filter Settings Current filter settings are shown at the bottom of the Data panel and at the bottom of the Filters panel instead of as a tooltip when moving the cursor over the Filters panel header. Default Colors The default color scheme has been updated. Analyses created in earlier Spotfire versions will retain their original color scheme.

9 9 Deprecated and Removed Features The following tables list any features that have been deprecated or removed as of version of TIBCO Spotfire Consumer/Business Author and Web Player. Removed Features Affected Component TIBCO Spotfire Web Player Server TIBCO Spotfire Web Player Server Description Support for Windows Server 2008 has been removed. Supported versions are 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2. Support for.net Framework has been removed..net Framework 4.5.2, or later, is required.

10 10 Migration and Compatibility The following are instructions on how to migrate from a previous release to version of TIBCO Spotfire Web Player. Migrating from Release 6.5.x Follow the instructions in the TIBCO Spotfire Web Player 7.0 Installation and Configuration Manual to install TIBCO Spotfire Web Player 7.0. Installation Notes Installing the TIBCO Spotfire Web Player from a network drive is not possible; the installer must be run locally. While technically possible, it is not recommended to install TIBCO Spotfire Web Player on the same machine as the TIBCO Spotfire Server. Performance for both products will be affected negatively, and there are complications concerning port numbers. The installation program creates a virtual directory called SpotfireWeb under the Default Web Site in IIS. If there is more than one web site on the server, it is important to select the port for the correct web site during installation, as described in the TIBCO Spotfire Web Player Installation and Configuration Manual. It is particularly important to install TIBCO Spotfire Web Player and TIBCO Spotfire Server on separate machines when using Kerberos authentication. Additional information and advice on troubleshooting are available in the installation manual.

11 11 Closed Issues The table lists important closed issues in version of TIBCO Spotfire Consumer/Business Author and Web Player. Key TS Summary When exporting a map chart to PDF using vector graphics, the map was not rendered correctly. Using the built-in zoom function in Internet Explorer 7.0 or later could affect the interaction in such a way that marking in visualization did not follow the movement of the mouse pointer. TSWP-7581 TSWP-7745 TSWP-7738 Analysis sometimes failed to open when a new version of the analysis had been saved. Problems with cross table column visibility. Co-branding service did not replace Spotfire brand logo with the specified cobranded image.

12 12 Known Issues The table lists known issues in version of TIBCO Spotfire Consumer/Business Author and Web Player. Key Summary Summary: If JavaScript is disabled in the web browser, analysis files will not appear and the application cannot be used. Workaround: None Summary: If regular cookies are turned off in the web browser, the Remember me function will not work properly. Workaround: None TS Summary: With some configurations, Recommendations may display empty map chart visualizations. Workaround: Turn on auto-load option for all geocoding options.