Automation Services is a very useful tool to automate certain Spotfire tasks. You can think of Automation Services as a special headless Spotfire client that runs on a server. Spotfire has a scheduler built in to the administration console as of Version 10.
Some great things you can do with Automation Services include the following:
- Load the latest data from an information link or file in the library—in this way, the Spotfire file becomes a cache for data and can store the data without having to query the external data source every time it is opened. This can also be achieved (in a different way) by using scheduling and routing.
- Export images or PDF files.
- Send emails to users containing visualizations, a copy of the analysis, link to the file on the web, PDF files, and so on.
- And much more...
The Automation Services Job Builder...
