How to configure Spotfire Web Player access to local and shared network directories – Revvity Signals

Product: Spotfire Web Player

Summary:
This article describes additional settings that must be performed if the Spotfire Web Player service configuration is going to be used to open analysis files that reference files on local and shared network directories, like \\myserver\myfolder\mydata.csv

Note: When adding files to your analysis which will be accessed via Spotfire Web Player, it is recommended to only use UNC based paths like "\\myserver\myfolder\mydata.csv", and not local or mapped drives like "D:\myfolder\mydata.csv" or WebDAV-based UNC paths.

Resolution:
To define the allowed file paths, manually edit the service configuration files per the following documented steps:

Doc: Manually editing the service configuration files

https://docs.tibco.com/pub/spotfire_server/14.0.1/doc/html/TIB_sfire_server_tsas_admin_help/server/topics/manually_editing_the_service_configuration_files.html

In Step 3 of the above referenced process ("3. Edit the exported configuration files in a text editor or XML editor"), edit the ‘Spotfire.Dxp.Worker.Host.exe.config’ with either of the following 2 options (OPTION A or OPTION B):

OPTION A) Explicitly define allowed paths with the AllowedFilePaths setting:
Locate the AllowedFilePaths setting:

<setting name="AllowedFilePaths" serializeAs="Xml">
        <value>
          <ArrayOfString>
            <string/>
          </ArrayOfString>
        </value>
      </setting>

Specify the individual paths in the 'AllowedFilePaths' parameter inside <string>. For example:

<setting name="AllowedFilePaths" serializeAs="Xml">
        <value>
          <ArrayOfString>
            <string>\\NetworkPath1\FolderName1\</string>
            <string>\\NetworkPath2\FolderName2\</string>
          </ArrayOfString>
        </value>
      </setting>

OR

OPTION B) Add the AllowAllFilePaths to allow all paths by default:
The exact change will depend on which version of Spotfire you are running:

Version 7.9 and higher:

Locate the AllowedFilePaths setting:

<setting name="AllowedFilePaths" serializeAs="Xml">
        <value>
          <ArrayOfString>
            <string/>
          </ArrayOfString>
        </value>
      </setting>

And add in the following setting directly after the above setting:

<setting name="AllowAllFilePaths" serializeAs="String">
       <value>True</value>
           </setting>

Resulting in:

<setting name="AllowedFilePaths" serializeAs="Xml">
        <value>
          <ArrayOfString>
            <string/>
          </ArrayOfString>
        </value>
      </setting>
  <setting name="AllowAllFilePaths" serializeAs="String">
       <value>True</value>
           </setting>

Save the file.

Version 7.5 to 7.8:

Locate the AllowedFilePaths setting:

<setting name="AllowedFilePaths" serializeAs="Xml">
        <value>
          <ArrayOfString>
            <string/>
          </ArrayOfString>
        </value>
      </setting>

Comment out that section by adding  after, resulting in:

<!--<setting name="AllowedFilePaths" serializeAs="Xml">
        <value>
          <ArrayOfString>
            <string/>
          </ArrayOfString>
        </value>
      </setting>-->

Also, add in the following setting directly after the above commented out setting:

<setting name="AllowAllFilePaths" serializeAs="String">
       <value>True</value>
           </setting>

Resulting in:

<!--<setting name="AllowedFilePaths" serializeAs="Xml">
        <value>
          <ArrayOfString>
            <string/>
          </ArrayOfString>
        </value>
      </setting>-->
  <setting name="AllowAllFilePaths" serializeAs="String">
       <value>True</value>
           </setting>

Save the file.

Documentation Reference:

Manually editing the service configuration files

https://docs.tibco.com/pub/spotfire_server/14.0.1/doc/html/TIB_sfire_server_tsas_admin_help/server/topics/manually_editing_the_service_configuration_files.html

Spotfire.Dxp.Worker.Host.exe.config > allowedfilepaths

https://docs.tibco.com/pub/spotfire_server/14.0.1/doc/html/TIB_sfire_server_tsas_admin_help/server/topics/spotfire.dxp.worker.host.exe.config_file.html

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