What is Information Designer in Spotfire?

What is Information Designer in Spotfire?

The Information Designer is a tool for setting up data sources and creating and opening information links. An information link is a database query specifying the columns to be loaded and any filters needed to narrow down the data table prior to creating visualizations in TIBCO Spotfire.

How do I use information design in Spotfire?

On the authoring bar, click Files and data , and then click Other and select Information designer to open Information Designer. The Elements tree in Information Designer is a representation of the folder structure in the library.

How do I create a datasource in Spotfire?

Setting up a Spotfire Data source

  1. Within TIBCO Spotfire Professional, open the Information Designer from the menu bar as: Tools -Information Designer.
  2. Click the Setup Data Source link.
  3. Click Save.
  4. Click Save again, if pop window appears.

What is a Spotfire Information Link?

Information links are predefined database queries, specifying the columns to be loaded into the internal data engine of TIBCO Spotfire, and any filters needed to reduce the size of the data table prior to visualization.

What is the use of information link in Spotfire?

What is ads in Spotfire?

Spotfire Advanced Data Services (ADS) is a data virtualization server. ADS expands the number of data sources that Spotfire Analytics can connect to and adds a number of additional capabilities, such as caching, data quality, and an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for data modeling and transformations.

How do I call API in Spotfire?

Introduction

  1. Add a Data Source in Advanced Data Services (ADS)
  2. Define the XSD of the API response / Transform Json output to XML.
  3. Transform the XML output to tabular data.
  4. Make this tabular data visible in ADS.
  5. Publish the data in ADS.
  6. Import the data in Spotfire.
  7. Manage parameters in Spotfire.

How is the information in a data source organized?

A data source is made up of fields and groups. In the same way that folders on your hard disk contain and organize your files, fields contain the data that users enter into forms that are based on your form template, and groups contain and organize those fields. These name fields are contained in a group called “name.”

What is create data source?

Response: A Data Source tab is displayed. In the Name field, type the name of the new data source. Specify the Type of the data source. Type a Username and Password that gives access to the data source. Select whether a user must be authenticated when accessing the data source.