Product: TIBCO Spotfire®
How to restrict business author users from modifying an analysis
"Allow Authoring in web clients" property in an analysis allows Business Author licensed users to modify published analysis. This property can be unchecked if you do not want Business Author licensed users to modify that published analysis. If any user has only Consumer license, they would not be able to modify the analysis even though "Allow authoring in web clients" is checked in analysis.
This property by default is checked for all analysis and can be located in TIBCO Spotfire Analyst under Edit > Document Properties > Library > Allow Authoring in web clients.
Note, this property is not available from 10.x versions onwards.
As this option is not available in 10.x TIBCO Spotfire versions, you would not be able to restrict Business Author users from modifying analysis directly.
You can use below workarounds to restrict all users from modifying published analysis:
1) Folder Permissions:
Save the dxp in one folder whose permissions would be browse+access for all users. That way even though Business Author users modify anything in dxp, they would not be able to overwrite the published dxp
2) Hide Viewing/Editing dropdown:
You can alter css property for authoring dropdown in analysis. Below css style needs to be inserted in textarea on each tab
<style>
.sfx_author-dropdown_292 {
display:none;
}
</style>
Note this approach is not recommended as class names for attributes may change from version to version so after upgrade this functionality may stop working. Hence, this can be the last option if folder permissions approach do not work for your use case.
Doc: Details on Document Properties – Library