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TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

You're reading from   TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer Building enterprise-grade data analytics and visualization solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
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ISBN-13 9781787121324
Length 578 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introducing Spotfire FREE CHAPTER
2. Welcome to Spotfire 3. It's All About the Data 4. Impactful Dashboards! 5. Sharing Insights and Collaborating with Others 6. Section 2: Spotfire In Depth
7. Practical Applications of Spotfire Visualizations 8. The Big Wide World of Spotfire 9. Source Data is Never Enough 10. The World is Your Visualization 11. What's Your Location? 12. Section 3: Databases, Scripting, and Scaling Spotfire
13. Information Links and Data Connectors 14. Scripting, Advanced Analytics, and Extensions 15. Scaling the Infrastructure; Keeping Data up to Date 16. Beyond the Horizon 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Taking action from KPI charts or graphical tables

There are all sorts of other actions you can take from the user clicking on an item in a KPI chart or graphical table.

Note: you can only configure actions if you're using a Spotfire Analyst client. Actions cannot be set up using a web-based client.

Here are some example actions:

  • Perform various Spotfire actionsreset filters, filter to marked rows, navigate to a page, apply bookmarks, and so on
  • Execute IronPython scripts
  • Execute a statistical data function

You can build up a series of multiple actions, in order to achieve the task you want. Here is an example:

The important thing to remember (and it doesn't appear to be documented anywhere) is that clicking on the visual element in the KPI chart or graphical table marks the data first, then executes the actions. This is important because it allows the action...

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