TIBCO Spotfire Consumer and TIBCO Spotfire Business Author User's Guide

In this guide you learn how to get the most out of TIBCO Spotfire Consumer and TIBCO Spotfire Business Author. You get tips on how to get started with analyzing data as well as get detailed information on what you can do, and how.

The Spotfire Consumer and Spotfire Business Author products require access to the TIBCO Spotfire Server, and that the component Spotfire Web Player has been deployed on the server. Most of the functionality in this user's guide requires a Spotfire Business Author license. A Spotfire Consumer license allows consumption of pre-defined analytic applications and dashboards; users can navigate, filter, mark, change parameters and export, but they cannot create their own applications and dashboards.

Data can be presented in form of different visualizations but you can also interact with the visualizations in various ways to gain more insight about the data.

Getting started

To get a quick start, see

Using Recommended visualizations

You do not need to create visualizations from scratch. When adding data and selecting data columns of interest, you are presented with recommended visualizations. Simply choose visualizations you find suitable, and use them as they are, or adjust them to suit your needs. Besides, you can anytime during your session get this assistance to create visualizations. Click Recommendations button in the toolbar to access Recommended visualizations.

Learning more

In the help topics available in the Contents pane to the left, you can learn what is possible to do, and how to do it. Examples are provided to inspire you to further investigate what you can achieve.



Note: When you are working with analyses in TIBCO Spotfire Consumer or TIBCO Spotfire Business Author, you cannot use the zooming that comes with your browser (CTRL + mouse wheel). Map charts have their own navigation controls that let you zoom.