How to enable Business Authoring on the TIBCO Spotfire Web Player

How to enable Business Authoring on the TIBCO Spotfire Web Player

Business Authoring is a feature that allows users to edit analyses from a web client. This feature was introduced in TIBCO Spotfire version 6.0. To enable this feature for users, Spotfire Administrators must perform two steps. First, activate the corresponding license via the Administration Manager tool. Then, verify that the Web Player service/server is configured to enable authoring mode. Step 1: License configuration, using the TIBCO Spotfire Analyst/Professional client.
Configuring license functions is done via the Administration Tool. Follow the steps below to enable the license:

1. Start the TIBCO Spotfire Analyst/Professional client and log in as an Administrator.
2. Select Tools > Administration Manager from the main menu.
3. Select the Groups and Licenses tab.
4. Select a Spotfire user group for which you want to configure licenses.
5. Click the Licenses tab in the right hand pane.
6. For each group that is to use the TIBCO Spotfire Business Author, click the Edit button, select the check box for the "TIBCO Spotfire Business Author" and "TIBCO Spotfire Consumer" licenses, and click OK.

See the TIBCO Spotfire Administration Manager User's Manual for more details.


Step 2: Enabling authoring mode on the Spotfire Web Player server/ Web Player service. 

For TIBCO Spotfire Web Player 7.5 and higher:
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/7.11.0/doc/html/TIB_sfire_server_tsas_admin_help/GUID-958A3AB5-7243-4837-9AEA-78AA274A6F7E.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.Web.config. Find the User Interface element and add attribute ‘showAuthor=true’. Example:  

<userInterface>
<analysis showToolTip="true" showClose="true" showToolBar="true" showAnalysisInformationTool="true" showExportFile="true" showExportVisualization="true" showUndoRedo="true" showDodPanel="" showFilterPanel="" showPageNavigation="true" showStatusBar="true" showPrint="true" allowRelativeLinks="false" showAuthor="true" />
</userInterface>

For TIBCO Spotfire Web Player 7.0 and lower:
  1. On the TIBCO Spotfire Web Player server, navigate to the configuration directory.
  2. Open the web.config file in a plain text editor.
  3. Find the userInterface element and verify that its attribute named ‘showAuthor’ has been set to the default value of ‘true’. 
Example:

<userInterface>
<analysis showToolTip="true" showClose="true" showToolBar="true" showAnalysisInformationTool="true" showExportFile="true" showExportVisualization="true" showUndoRedo="true" showDodPanel="" showFilterPanel="" showPageNavigation="true" showStatusBar="true" showPrint="true" allowRelativeLinks="false" showAuthor="true" />
</userInterface>

  4. Save the web.config file. 
  5. Restart the TIBCO Spotfire Web Player application pool or restart IIS.

Notes:

• The attribute ‘showAuthor’ controls whether the Edit button is displayed for visualizations that are loaded on the Web. This enables authoring mode in the TIBCO Spotfire Web Player.
• If you have more than one TIBCO Spotfire Web Player server, step 2 must be performed on each Web Player server.

• https://docs.tibco.com/pub/spotfire_server/7.11.0/doc/html/en-US/TIB_sfire-bauthor-consumer_usersguide/GUID-75B5988C-32E1-482C-A0E1-F9A63731D54B-homepage.html