How to display a static custom text message on the TIBCO Spotfire Web UI Login Page.

Product:TIBCO Spotfire Server
Versions:11.4 and Above

Summary:
This article describes how to display a static custom message on the Spotfire Web UI Login Screen. There may at times be a need to display a certain important message/instruction/warnings for the Spotfire users that may be of concern to your organization.

Details:
There are two ways to achieve this depending on the use case

1.  RSS Feed (This can generally be used for providing much more elaborate text, clickable links, icons in all Spotfire clients ) 
2. Setting security.login-page.text configuration property (This can be used to display a simple text message below the login credentials textboxes on the Spotfire Server login page)

This article is focused on using security.login-page.text

Resolution:
Export the configuration and make the necessary changes as specified below.

1. On the Spotfire Server installed machine, open the command prompt and navigate to the following folder "C:\tibco\tss\11.x.x\tomcat\spotfire-bin"
2. Run the following commands:
3. config export-config --tool-password=mypassword
4. config set-config-prop -n "security.login-page.text" -v "If not a Spotfire User, Please request for access"
5. config import-config --tool-password=mypassword --comment=what was changed
6. Restart your Spotfire server for the changes to take effect.

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