TIBCO Spotfire® Professional

TIBCO Spotfire® Professional

Release Notes

Software Release 6.0 November 2013

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TIBCO Spotfire® Professional Release Notes

Contents Preface............................................................................................................................................. ii

Typographical Conventions ....................................................................................................... iii

Connecting with TIBCO Resources........................................................................................... iv

How to Join TIBCOmmunity .............................................................................................. iv

How to Access All TIBCO Documentation ...................................................................... iv

How to Contact TIBCO Spotfire Support ......................................................................... iv

Release Notes .................................................................................................................................. 1

New Features .............................................................................................................................. 2

Release 6.0 ........................................................................................................................... 2

Changes in Functionality ............................................................................................................ 4

Release 6.0 ........................................................................................................................... 4

Deprecated and Removed Features ............................................................................................. 5

Release 6.0 ........................................................................................................................... 5

Migration and Compatibility....................................................................................................... 6

Release 6.0 ........................................................................................................................... 6

Closed Issues ............................................................................................................................... 6

Known Issues ............................................................................................................................ 15

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Preface

Topics

Typographical Conventions, page iii

Connecting with TIBCO Resources, page iv

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Typographical Conventions

The following typographical conventions are used in this manual.

General Typographical Conventions

Convention Use

code font Code font identifies commands, code examples, filenames, pathnames, and output d isplayed in a command window. For example:

Use MyCommand to start the foo process.

bold code

font

Bold code font is used in the following ways:

In procedures, to ind icate what a user types. For example: Type admin.

In large code samples, to ind icate the parts of the sample that is of particu lar interest.

In command syntax, to ind icate the default parameter for a command. For example, if no parameter is specified , MyCommand is enabled : MyCommand [ enable | disable]

italic font Italic font is used in the following ways:

To ind icate a document title. For example: See Concepts.

To introduce new terms For example: A portal page may contain several portlets. Portlets are mini-app lications that run in a portal.

To ind icate a variable in a command or code syntax that you must replace. For example: MyCommand PathName

Key combinations Key name separated by a p lus sign ind icate keys pressed simultaneously. For example: Ctrl+C.

Key names separated by a comma and space ind icate keys pressed one after the other. For example: Esc , Ctrl+Q.

The note icon ind icates information that is of special interest or importance, for example, an add itional action required only in certain circumstances.

The tip icon ind icates an id ea that could be useful, for example, a way to app ly the information provided in the current section to achieve a specific result.

The warning icon ind icates the potential for a d amaging situation, for example, data loss or corruption if certain steps are taken or not taken.

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Connecting with TIBCO Resources

How to Join TIBCOmmunity

TIBCOmmunity is an online destination for TIBCO customers, partners, and resident experts, a p lace to share and access the collective experience of the TIBCO community. TIBCOmmunity offers forums, blogs, and access to a variety of resources. To register, go to http:/ / www.tibcommunity.com .

How to Access All TIBCO Documentation

After you join TIBCOmmunity, you can access the documentation for all supported product versions here:

https:/ / d ocs.tibco.com

How to Contact TIBCO Spotfire Support

For comments or problems with this manual or the software it addresses, p lease contact TIBCO Spotfire Support as follows.

For an overview of TIBCO Support, and information about getting started with TIBCO Support, visit this site:

http:/ / www.tibco.com/ services/ support

If you already have a valid maintenance or support contract, visit this site:

https:/ / support.tibco.com

Entry to this site requires a username and password . If you do not have a username, you can request one.

http://www.tibcommunity.com/

https://docs.tibco.com/

http://www.tibco.com/services/support

https://support.tibco.com/

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Release Notes

Check the TIBCO Prod uct Support web site at https:/ / support.tibco.com for product information that was not available at release time. Entry to this site requires a username and password . If you do not have a username, you can request one. You must have a valid maintenance or support contract to use this site.

See the TIBCO Spotfire® System Requirements web page for a detailed description of the system requirements for TIBCO Spotfire®.

Topics

New Features, see page 2

Changes in Functionality, see page 3

Deprecated and Removed Features, see page 5

Migration and Compatibility, see page 6

Closed Issues, see page 6

Known Issues, see page 15

https://support.tibco.com/

http://support.spotfire.com/sr.asp

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New Features

This section lists features added since the last release of this product.

Release 6.0

The following are new features in this release.

Images on Axes

TIBCO Spotfire® 6.0 enables the user to setup images to represent categorical labels on X- and Y-axes.

Text Area Enhancements

TIBCO Spotfire® 6.0 includ es the following enhancements to the text area:

o HTML editor with scrip ting capabilities.

o Background image and color.

o Rescaling of images.

Script Execution and Document Properties

In TIBCO Spotfire® 6.0 it is possible to associate a Python scrip t with a document property and have the script automatically triggered whenever the property value changes.

Share Data File in Library

TIBCO Spotfire® 6.0 offers the ability to export a data table to the library where it is stored as an SBDF file that can be reused in other documents .

New Map Chart

In TIBCO Spotfire® 6.0 there is a new map chart with lots of new functionality, includ ing multiple layers, an online base map, and geocoding. However, note that there is no public API for the new map chart in the 6.0 release

The geocoding feature is based on geocoding tables that come bundled with the server installer, bu t which must be manually imported into the Spotfire library. The tables are represented as data files in the library (using the new feature described above).

The new map chart exists in parallel with the old map chart. Old *.dxp files will continue to use the old map chart, but the new map chart is used (by default) when new visualizations are created . It is possible to change the default behavior through a preference setting.

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Transformations

In TIBCO Spotfire® 6.0 it is possible to insert transformations on all in-memory data tables after import.

Data from Connectors

In TIBCO Spotfire® 6.0 it is possible to:

o Import d ata to the Spotfire data tables from RDBMS sources.

o Apply on–demand criteria to the Spotfire d ata tables, in order to use only a subset of data in the visualizations, regard less of whether the table is imported or in -database. Applying on-demand criteria is available for RDBMS sources.

o Choose not to create Spotfire data tables from all views available in the connection to the data source. Non -Spotfire views are not d irectly available for Spotfire analyses, but they are included in the connection and can be added as data tables at a later stage. Tables in the connection can be reused to create multiple Spotfire tables.

o Insert columns and rows from connectors for in -memory data.

Loading data

In TIBCO Spotfire® 6.0 it is possible to open an analysis file even if a data source fails to load data.

TIBCO Spotfire® 6.0 supports matching on null values when importing columns.

Calculated Columns In TIBCO Spotfire® 6.0 it is optional to embed the calculated columns in

the analysis, and instead having them recalculated when the analysis is opened .

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Changes in Functionality

This section lists changes in functionality since the last release of this prod uct.

Release 6.0 .Net Framework 4.0 is no longer supported . Support for .Net 4.5 has

been added .

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Deprecated and Removed Features

This section lists features that have been deprecated or removed since the last release of this prod uct.

Release 6.0

Deprecated Features

The following features are deprecated in this release:

None.

Removed Features

Wind ows XP is no longer supported .

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Migration and Compatibility

This section explains how to migrate from a previous release to this release.

Release 6.0

Installation

1. First install/ upgrade the TIBCO Spotfire® Server to version 6.0.

2. Install TIBCO Spotfire® Professional 6.0

Note: If the TIBCO Spotfire® 3.1.0 Professional or older is installed , it is recommended to uninstall it prior to installing the TIBCO Spotfire® Professional 6.0.

3. Finally, deploy the TIBCO Spotfire® 6.0 d istribution on the TIBCO Spotfire® Server 6.0.

Upgrading from Previous Version without Installing

1. First install/ upgrade the TIBCO Spotfire® Server to version 6.0.

2. Deploy the TIBCO Spotfire® 6.0 d istribution on the TIBCO Spotfire® Server 6.0.

3. Start the old version of TIBCO Spotfire® Professional, log on to the TIBCO Spotfire® Server 6.0 and accept the update.

Installation Notes

If the .NET 4.5 framework is not installed , it will be downloaded and installed when launching the TIBCO Spotfire® Client installer.

If the product localization is defined as a user group preference, a client restart is required after the initial login to the server for the changes to be fully applied . Note that clients are not informed that such a restart is required . It is also important that the appropriate localization pack ages are deployed to the TIBCO Spotfire® Server prior to setting the user group preference.

Note that the correct Language pack and the matching server preference must be set on the very first server that the user connects to. Changing the settings on the Server will not have any effect. If the localization group preference does not have any effect, it can be enforced on clients using Tools > Options.

Closed Issues

The table in this section lists issues that were closed in the named release.

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Closed In Release

Key Summary

6.0 TS-24593 When using certain fonts in a cross table, the text can appear slightly misplaced when exporting to PDF.

6.0 TS-24452 The value bars in a bullet graph get a white border when exported to PDF.

6.0 TS-24601 Tiled markers in a scatter p lot have a line d rawn d iagonally over them when exporting to PDF.

6.0 TS-24535 Bars d isappear (or become too thin to see) when exporting to PDF, if there are many bars in a bar chart.

6.0 TS-24479 Exporting a heat map with many rows to PDF with vector graphics results in an empty visualization.

6.0 TS-24502 When exporting a table visualization with columns rendered as links to PDF, the underline will become a strikethrough.

6.0 TS-30108 When using in-db d ata it is not possible to limit data using comparisons that use aggregated values.

6.0 TS-28648 When exporting visualizations that are based on in-db data to PDF, filter settings are not included .

6.0 TS-30202 Poor performance for hierarchies with a large number of categories (>1000) when calculating OVER expressions that combine the methods AllPrevious and NavigatePeriod .

6.0 TS-30210 Non-informative error message in the cross table when using grand total for columns and the cell values expressions refer to either ‘CategoryIndex.Rows', ‘CategoryIndex.Columns', the levels on the vertical axis (Rows.*), or the levels on the horizontal axis (Columns.*).

5.5 TS-24395 Hebrew characters in head er/ footer are not correctly rendered in exported PDF.

5.5 TS-26862 The number of HTTP connections for the TIBCO Spotfire desktop client is limited to the max value used by the installed Internet Explorer, typ ically 4 connections. In some cases the performance is improved if more connections are allowed .

5.5 TS-26947 When having duplicate attribute hierarchy values in a treemap, performing a d rilldown using one of the duplicate values will always use the first of the duplicate values as defined by their unique name sort order .

5.5 TS-24704 Multiple non-aggregated expressions cannot be used on a continuous axis.

5.5 TS-27041 Filter tab in the Export to PDF d ialog shows unique value instead of presentation value when using Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services in-db data.

5.5 TS-28323 Rules in combination with Column Names affect the wrong elements.

6.0 TS-30337 TIBCO Spotfire freezes when trying to group by many attribu te hierarchies when using an in-database connection to an OLAP system .

6.0 TS-31117 Teradata connector cannot be used when the Terad ata database contains broken views.

6.0 TEDA-18 Not possible to use filters when using the Teradata connector and filtering on a Timestamp column.

6.0 TS-27404 Not possible to create a detailed visualization using an in -database connector when using the Time or DateTime data type.

6.0 TS-30674 For in-d atabase, Spotfire d oes not handle case-insensitive databases correctly.

6.0 TS-30571 For in-d atabase, Spotfire does not handle case-insensitive databases correctly.

6.0 TS-29111 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate when opening an analysis linked to Oracle where the

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Closed In Release

Key Summary

client lacks the Oracle client.

6.0 TS-31277 Excel file created as an export from SAP BO cannot open within Spotfire.

6.0 TS-21644 Images as Labels not positioned correctly when image is exported or in Web Player.

6.0 The API GetBaseRowIndexes returns an error, and filtering is not applied when using multiple derived DataViews (for example, an aggregated DataView based on a non -aggregated DataView based on a DataTable).

6.0 In certain rare circumstances, Spotfire may become u nstable when saving a file.

6.0 Dates formatted as “d ates includ ing months and not any time parts” in Microsoft Excel are imported incorrectly into Spotfire.

6.0 If the Line Similarity tool, or the K-means Clustering tool, has been run on data filtered by a list box filter, the file cannot be saved .

6.0 When adding or removing a document, column, or table property used as an Input parameter in the Data Functions UI, the result may be inconsistent and cause Spotfire to become unstable.

6.0 Unnecessarily high memory consumption for the operation "Add rows" when having many columns.

6.0 Spotfire becomes unstable when highlighting or marking in a bar chart with a custom expression like "[C] is null" or "([C]<4) IN (True)" on the category axis.

6.0 At certain screen resolutions, tooltips are d isplayed outside the visible screen area.

6.0 When an analysis contains large data sets, rendering and filtering may take some time, and TIBCO Spotfire Web Player may become unstable if data is exported while visualizations are still in the process of rendering or filtering.

6.0 Custom visualizations using the DataView API that request a "group by column" return an error when the same column is used several times.

6.0 Bookmarks created in version 4.5 or earlier may fail when opened in 5.5.

6.0 Bookmarks may fail d irectly after creation when having related data tables in the analysis.

6.0 Use of column properties in an analysis activates the recalculation icon for Data Relationships.

6.0 When under heavy load , Automation Services jobs creating PDF files may fail with an InvalidOperationException.

6.0 Spotfire may become unstable when using data table p roperties that are named the same in custom expressions, even though the data table properties come from d ifferent data tables.

6.0 A relation set up between two data tables does not recover when an on -demand data table is based on a procedure and the relation at some point has had an input that d id not return anything.

6.0 A certain calculated column in a 5.0 analysis, is no longer valid in 5.5 because columns have been renamed to each other.

6.0 When a data table used in a filter relation, related to a visualization with a marking, is deleted , Spotfire becomes unstable.

6.0 Different hash values are computed for +0.0 and -0.0, resulting in, for example, broken filters.

6.0 Wrong result when using an add itive aggregation method (e.g., Sum) having an OVER expression containing a single AllPrevious, intersected with an odd number of nested Parent larger than 2.

6.0 Relations from 4.5 with implicit cast (relations where the columns from both d a ta tables are of d ifferent data types after any applied methods) do not work in versions later than Spotfire 4.5.

6.0 Opening a file with a dendrogram created in an older version of Spotfire, may cause Spotfire to become unstable.

6.0 WeightedAverage gives wrong result in visualizations when filtering is applied .

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Key Summary

6.0 All filters in an old analysis are missing when the analysis is opened in Spotfire Web Player 5.5.0, if the analysis contains more than one d ata table, but the filters are set to be visible for only one of the d ata tables.

6.0 Incorrect use of ColumnProperty, DataTableProperty and DocumentProperty functions in custom expressions can cause Spotfire to become unstable (if the argument is something other than a string).

6.0 The Spotfire Client may terminate with the exception "An item with the same key has alread y added", when having a Cross Table or Heat Map in an invalid state and having multiple expressions for cell values that had the same alias/ d isplay name.

6.0 If a user, that has no license to save an analysis file to d isc but only to the Library, opens an analysis from the Library, the user will not be prompted to save the file to the Library when closing the analysis.

6.0 The Spotfire Client may terminate when marking in a plot that uses a document p roperty in a custom expression on a categorical axis.

6.0 Performance issues when handling large numbers of columns, such as changing aggregation method or re-ordering columns, in the plot properties or "Select columns" d ialogs.

6.0 Auto-binning on Category axes prevents ed iting of expressions for Vertical Lines & Curves.

6.0 The Spotfire Client may terminate when drawing a horizontal line in Bar Charts if using expressions containing post-aggregation "THEN" statements on the Y-axis.

6.0 Under some conditions, analysis files that has been created with PerkinElmer Lead Discovery (LD) deployed cannot be opened if LD is not deployed .

6.0 The Spotfire Client may hang or terminate when populating a property control based on a column with many repeating values.

6.0 For Bar Charts, the layout type automatically changes from "Stacked Bars" to "Sid e -by-Side Bars" when bringing up the Property page for subsets if the subset "All data" is enabled .

6.0 Unable to change aggregation back to “None” in Select Columns d ialog.

6.0 Rapid changes in highlights or markings in complex analyses can result in resource leaks.

6.0 The Spotfire Client may under some conditions terminate when ed iting range filter labels.

6.0 When using the Web Player on iPad , visualizations are only partly visible when using the setting "iPad Landscape" or "iPad Portrait".

6.0 Horizontal Lines based on Line from Data Table are shown even when filtered out if "Compensate for missing values" is checked .

6.0 In Graphical Tables, header texts can d isappear when scrolling horizontally.

6.0 The Spotfire Client may in some circumstances terminate while opening analyses with the exception "System.IndexOutOfRangeException while load ing file.".

6.0 Add columns and Add rows may join on the wrong column if the column to join on is a calculated column that is added as an import transformation, if the analysis was created in a version before 5.0. This may, for example, lead to columns with no data.

6.0 Graphical Tables don't show any visual marking ind ication when "specify separate data limiting" is used .

6.0 In analyses with linked data, any calculated columns based on linked data causes those data tables to be stored as embedded data (instead of linked) in the analysis, which can result in large file sizes.

6.0 Calcu lated columns that depend on a list value document property are not recalcu lated if the document property has the value null.

6.0 Axis selectors are not upd ated when changing Bar Chart orientation in Web Player via script.

6.0 Scatter Plot legend s sometimes do not show all shapes that are shown in the plot if the number of shapes in the unfiltered data exceeds 256.

6.0 Imported color schemes may in some cases not be applied correctly .

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Key Summary

6.0 In Table Plots with d ata limited using expressions, expressions that contains non -processor document properties may cause the plot to not be updated in all cases.

6.0 The Spotfire Client may hang for some time after a column selector has been clicked on.

6.0 Line Chart value labels for marked rows will not be d isplayed for some marked rows, if there are more rows in the Data Table than the "max number of labels" setting.

6.0 No images are returned when using Image from URL in Table Plots, if connecting to a server that requires NTLM authentication.

6.0 Under some conditions, the "filtered by others"-ind ication for hierarchy filters can cause performance issues when used with large d ata sets in the Web Player and / or Text Areas.

6.0 Under some circumstances, various components (such as Visualizations, Text Area controls and custom components) may react as if a Document, Table or Column property value or data in a column has changed although it has not.

6.0 When using custom DateTime format with Range Filters, clicking on the Calend ar icon may cause the Spotfire Client to terminate.

6.0 Removing columns from Cross Table Plot in the select columns d ialog crashed spotfire if the columns were continuous.

6.0 Table group collapse button not visible in Web Player filter panel if using multip le tables but only one visible table

6.0 Unable to open file with erroneous curve from data table expression

6.0 Spotfire may terminate when opening or configuring analyses with combination chart, if combination chart has many multi-level 'series by' categories explicitly set

6.0 Description missing in the right pane of Open from Library d ialog

6.0 Crash when using multiple monitors and Matrox graphics card

6.0 Table plot not upd ating properly if not limited by filtering

6.0 Incorrect coloring in crosstable and heatmap when having measures with the same d isplay name.

6.0 K-means clustering only giving 1 cluster when having flat or relative flat lines.

6.0 Spotfire may terminate when visualization contain empty continuous color scheme

6.0 Trim calculation may give bad result for analyis created in TIBCO Spotfire 3.3 o r earlier

6.0 Data from an information link that is pivoted may not be correctly imported for analyses created in TIBCO Spotfire 4.5 or earlier if the pivoting is based on a calcu lated column.

6.0 When explicitly defining relations for external tables, if you change the table d rop down after the OK button has been enabled , the column(s) d rop down becomes empty but the OK button is still enabled .

6.0 Unable to check values for 'Visualization title ' and 'Description' on the PDF Export General tab in Internet Explorer

6.0 Export to PDF fails if name of analysis contains &.

6.0 When exporting a Bar Chart with many bars to PDF, some bars are not visible in the PDF.

6.0 Slow TIBCO Spotfire client startup on some systems.

6.0 K-means calcu lation may fail when using columnnames on the X-axis.

6.0 Line Similarity using Euclid ian d istance may fail to give result.

6.0 Extension rendering tab control with wid th less than 48px result in Invalid argument when using IE7, IE8, or IE9

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate when setting dendrogram to external upd ate.

6.0 Unable to upgrade TIBCO Spotfire client previous upgraded from TIBCO Spotfire 4.0.0 when upgrad ing as restricted user.

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Key Summary

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate when adding rows to d ata based on linked d ata and data type has changed on one or more columns.

6.0 Share to TIBBR fails for TIBBR hosts version 4.1.

6.0 Tibco Spotfire may terminate when using another data table than the visualization main data table for both p ie size and sector size in p ie chart, scatter plot or map chart.

6.0 Unable to list schema from Teradata if there are broken or incorrectly setup views.

6.0 Get Values on values prompt for Informationlink fails

6.0 Long running image requests are not cancelled when the web browser is closed .

6.0 Filter panel not upd ated when the filtering scheme is changed via scripting.

6.0 Formatter lost in Pivot transformation.

6.0 TIBCO spotfire may terminate when using range filter calend ar control for custom datetime format strings.

6.0 Webplayer d iagnostics information XML not properly escaped

6.0 Open from Library may fail if running multip le spotfire sessions simultaneously.

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate with Stack Overflow exception when Opening Analysis that uses map operator on many values in custom expression.

6.0 Mixed content warning when when selecting Analysis Information on Webplayer using https.

6.0 Bad performance for larger cross table visualization when using auto decimals number formatting

6.0 Graphical table with y-axis = row number (baserowid) doesn't get upd ated when the data table is refreshed and the number of rows increases.

6.0 Visualization rendering take long time when having a large number of trellis panels.

6.0 Data Properties with the 'IsUserEditable' flag not set is not exported in SBDF and STDF formats.

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate when upd ating an existing Line Similarity if the resulting columns have been filtered upon (this whould not be possible to do).

6.0 Occasional restart of WebPlayer server with System.NullReferenceException at Spotfire.Dxp.Application.Visuals.ConditionalColoring.ColoringCollection.FindLevelByName in event log

6.0 Public Javascript API throws an exception when trying to get marked items and a filtering scheme is supplied .

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire Web Player memory may not be released after executing a Python script, which explicitly catches exceptions within the script.

6.0 PersistentDataView API throws an exception when accessing columns if underlying column name has changed .

6.0 PersistentDataView API may throw an exception when using add itional selections.

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate if using relations where one Data Table has been renamed to the original name of the other Data Table.

6.0 For the TIBCO Spotfire Web Player, the first rendering of a detail visualization in a shared document takes longer than the subsequent renderings.

6.0 For the TIBCO Spotfire Web Player, changing the selections in the hierarchy filter in the filter panel causes the hierarchy filter to d isappear for a second and then reappear.

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire Web Player may throw an error when quickly interacting with property controls that changes axis expressions.

6.0 Spotfire may become unstable when highlighting in a visualization, which contains an in-database main table and an in-memory second ary table.

6.0 The sort order in a list box filter may be incorrect after reload , resu lting in an erroneous selection of rows.

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Closed In Release

Key Summary

6.0 Calcu lated Value in a Text Area has incorrect alignment for string values.

6.0 The formatting of a reference line label is wrong when the type of the Y axis is LongInteger.

6.0 Labels get assigned to the wrong data points when there are empty values present.

6.0 Labels get assigned to the wrong data points when using zoom sliders.

6.0 When starting the client from the commandline, the area attribute is ignored .

6.0 Trim calculation can show the wrong value when opening a file that was saved in TIBCO Spotfire 3.3.

6.0 API for d rag and drop targets throws an exception when used accord ing to example code in SDK.

6.0 Data OnDemand from an Information link that is pivoted , with the pivoting based on a calculated column, may not be correctly imported if using an analysis created in TIBCO Spotfire version 4.5 or earlier.

6.0 Custom aggregation methods are called too many times.

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate when performing und o/ redo (or app lying bookmarks) for some analyses containing advanced expressions.

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate when adding columns with a large amount of data.

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire terminates when using FiscalYear(dateTimeNow()) express ion.

6.0 Add Rows does not handle the case when you want to use a previously frozen column to identify row values.

6.0 Bad performance of the NormInv function.

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate when using the 'Log scale' option on the X axis together with a vertical line based on a column property in a bar chart.

6.0 Filtering does not affect the UniqueConcatenate method when using the Analysis Services connector.

6.0 The handler for tibcospotfire URLs is still set to the former Spotfire installation even if it has been uninstalled and Spotfire 5.5.0 has been installed .

6.0 Lack of detailed progress information when performing transformations, insert rows, and insert columns.

6.0 ClientJobSender.exe will freeze if the user red irects the console ou tput to a file.

6.0 Poor performance when working with many tables and using filtering in related data tables.

6.0 Bad performance on TIBCO Spotfire Web Player server with high memory usage when opening analysis with specific custom data source for Excel files from Sharepoint.

6.0 Insert/ Ed it Web Link in Text Area does not working properly for tibcospotfire URIs and some selections.

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate when using a document property as name for a line in Lines & Curves when using log transform

6.0 Highlight in line chart not d rawn correctly when having more than two consecutive empty Y-values.

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate when opening the legend and/ or Coloring Property page for cross table where the measures expressions are syntactically incorrect.

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate when switching visualization to a Heat Map if "(Column Names)" is used on a trellis axis.

6.0 Problem to open some excel files, was fixed by using a newer version of the third party library syncfusion.

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate when performing K-means clustering or Line Similarity when replacing d ata with data that has changed significantly.

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate when creating a property control in the text area for the long integer type.

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Closed In Release

Key Summary

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate when using OVER expressions referring to cross table axes that only have Column Names levels.

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate when hovering over Shape scheme control with 'Evaluate axis expression' set to 'Current filtering only' after filtering.

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate when overflow occurs d uring formatting for some formatter configurations

6.0 When load ing empty d ata for on demand we lose metadata information and table and filters d isplay error message.

6.0 RXReplace and Substitute methods slow for common use cases.

6.0 The result of the DatePart method sometimes gets the wrong formatter.

6.0 Axis formatting settings could be lost when open files from version 4.5 or earlier having multiple expressions on y-axis using columns with d ifferent numeric data types.

6.0 Poor responsiveness in hierarchy filters when working with large d ata sets. Affects Web Player and Text Areas in Professional Client.

6.0 Bookmarks can become invalid after updating them to include filtering on a calculated column.

6.0 Generating marker labels can be very slow when there are many empty values in the label column.

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate when ed iting sort order of a tags column.

6.0 When 'Evaluate axis expression' is set to 'Current filtering only' on an axis, OVER expressions before the THEN -keyword can give wrong results or crash.

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate when pie shapes in scatter plot and X or Y has auto -bin.

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate when using aggregating where clauses to filter d ata for detail visualizations.

6.0 Plots using multiple tables show wrong d ata a) when opening an analysis file that was saved with an explicitly set column match, and b) when performing Duplicate Visualization (or duplicate Page) if there was an exp licitly set column match.

6.0 No longer possible to register two tools with the same name

6.0 The sort order for custom tools is alphabetical in 5.5. It was previously in the ord er the custom tools were created .

6.0 TIBCO Spotfire may terminate when creating bookmark for a visualization using multiple tables and explicitly defined column matches.

6.0 When starting with the / server: switch the login d ialog was always shown even if user had selected remember me.

6.0 Setting the language preference for a group had no effect.

6.0 Failed to open analysis using calcu lated columns with document properties.

6.0 When implementing extension with PersistentDataView there was a problem using BaseRowId .

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Release Notes| 15


Known Issues

The table in this section lists known issues in this release.

Key Summary/Workaround

TS-24612 Summary When setting a d ocument property value from an expression in a property control in the text area, it is not possible to select columns from any d ata table.

Workaround Change the default d ata table in Data Table Properties.

TS-24486 Summary Transparent lines are not rendered correctly in Export to PDF when using Vector graphics mode.

Workaround Do not use transparent lines if you intend to export the analysis to PDF.

TS-24436 Summary When having multiple trellis panels, the Colors page in the Visualization Properties shows the colors for the first trellis panel. The other panels may have a d ifferent color configuration but that cannot be seen in the property page.

Workaround None.

TS-24512 Summary When exporting a map chart to PDF using vector graphics, the map is not rendered correctly.

Workaround Use raster graphics when exporting a map to PDF.

Summary It is not possible to connect to a server from a machine in another NT domain by using Run As when launching Spotfire.

Workaround None.

Summary Hardware graphics acceleration may not work on old er graphics cards or if the d rivers are not up to date.

Workaround None.

Summary Certain graphics cards and drivers lead to crashes, slow response times, blank visualizations, or missing shapes when hard ware acceleration is used . This is known to happen on Dell Dimension 9200 / NVid ia 7900 Graphics d river: version 7.15.11.5824 but may happen on other system configurations as well.

Workaround Upgrad ing to the latest graphics d river may resolve these issues. If not, hard ware acceleration can be turned off u nder Tools > Options > Application.

Summary The 3D Scatter Plot is not supported in a Citrix environment since the plot requires hard ware acceleration.

Workaround None.

Summary Filtering in the Data Relationships results table will prevent re -calcu lating the Data Relationships.

Workaround Reset filters and Data Relationships can be re-calculated again.

TS-26085 Summary A categorical custom expression on the Color by axis for Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services in-db data results in a broken visualization .

Workaround Use a continuous Color by expression instead .

TS-26511 Summary Synonyms do not show up in the list of available tables and views when using an Oracle in-db connection .

Workaround None.

TS-25069 Summary Colors are not the same when opening a file in TIBCO Spotfire 5.X as in TIBCO Spotfire 4.5 for a visualization with categorical coloring by a binned column.

Workaround On the color axis, set a custom expression for the binning instead of the

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Key Summary/Workaround column name.

TS-23916 Summary Missing table error messages in Data Relationships.

Workaround None.

TS-26048 Summary Loading more than 2 billion rows may lead to faulty behaviour (wrong number of rows shown in the status bar or possible instabilities).

Workaround Reduce the number of rows in the data table.

SNXT-3689 Summary Issues with Data Functions ru nning the local TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R engine: Running library(sjdbc) throws error when load ing requ ired package terrJava due to no JAVA_HOME environment variable set.

Workaround TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R does not include its own version of the Java Runtime. The terrJava package (and any packages that depend on it, such as the sjdbc package), require a version of Java 1.6 or higher to be installed and available on the same machine, and the JAVA_HOME environment variable need s to be configured to the path to the Java installation.

TS-29967 Summary Error message is shown in visualization for some invalid expressions (with for example mismatched parenthesis) that were allowed in 5.0.

Workaround Correct the invalid expression and the visualizat ion will work.

TS-29245 Summary No warnings when working with cube columns with non -unique d istinct values and combining that with another data table in a visualizat ion.

Workaround None.

TS-30062 Summary Refreshing a schema definition in Spotfire based on external data does not provide a warning if the table has been renamed in the external system .

Workaround This issue exists for the Oracle and the Teradata connector. Fix the analysis by bringing up the Data Tables in Connection d ialog, remove the table that has been renamed from the Data tables in connection list box, add the new table and rename that table to the original name.

TS-30097 Summary Using multiple unrelated attribute hierarchies from e.g., Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services or SAP BW, on the Y-axis on a Graphical table results in a visualization error.

Workaround Open the Custom Expression d ialog for the Y-axis and change the NEST method to CROSS.

SSAS-6 Summary Marking in a visualization that uses data from Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services and is configured with a “Not in Marking”-subset will result in a broken visualization.

Workaround None.

TS-31114 Summary Spotfire does not support hierarchical sets in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, i.e., when a dynamic set returns more than one column

Workaround None.

TS-30623 Summary Wrong scale is shown in Line Chart when having log scale and error bars. The lines are compressed and become flat.

Workaround None.

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