Below are the steps involved for building visualizations in Spotfire Desktop,
Step 1 : Install Spotfire Desktop.
Step 2 : Launch Spotfire Desktop.
Step 3 : Loading data into Spotfire Desktop.
Step 4 : Building visualizations .
Step 1 : In my case, I have installed Spotfire Desktop 6.5.
Step 2 : Launch Spotfire Desktop
To Launch Spotfire Desktop,
Select All Program -->TIBCO-->TIBCO Spotfire
After launching Spotfire,
Step 3 : Loading data into Spotfire Desktop
we can load data in a number of ways :
Import Screen will appear,you have to select the worksheet to import (my case I have only one sheet), based on the column available in worksheet, Spotfire will identify the datatypes, if you need to change you can change,
Excel data is added into Spotfire Desktop, and if you want to add any calculated column,select the transformation in the drop down list and click add,(my case i am going to add salary+comm = Total Salary).
Step 1 : Install Spotfire Desktop.
Step 2 : Launch Spotfire Desktop.
Step 3 : Loading data into Spotfire Desktop.
Step 4 : Building visualizations .
Step 1 : In my case, I have installed Spotfire Desktop 6.5.
Step 2 : Launch Spotfire Desktop
To Launch Spotfire Desktop,
Select All Program -->TIBCO-->TIBCO Spotfire
After launching Spotfire,
Step 3 : Loading data into Spotfire Desktop
we can load data in a number of ways :
- Copy and paste data using the clipboard.
- Open Simple Text files,Microsoft Excel files, or SAS files.
- Import from a Database.
In my case I have used to load data from Ms-Excel,
Select Add Data Connection-->Add-->from the drop down list select File,
Browse the Excel which contains data to load into Spotfire Desktop,
Import Screen will appear,you have to select the worksheet to import (my case I have only one sheet), based on the column available in worksheet, Spotfire will identify the datatypes, if you need to change you can change,
Click ok,
Excel data is added into Spotfire Desktop, and if you want to add any calculated column,select the transformation in the drop down list and click add,(my case i am going to add salary+comm = Total Salary).
New Column added into Data Tables, Click ok
Step 4 : Building visualizations
Visualization Page will appear, you have to select column
Step 4 : Building visualizations
Visualization Page will appear, you have to select column
In my case, I have selected Salary and Total Salary column in Y axis, Dept id in X axis,
New visualization has been created, to change the side by bars, right click on the visualization, select side by side bars,
Note :As of now remove filter, i will post different blog adding filter to the existing report,
New visualization has been created, to change the side by bars, right click on the visualization, select side by side bars,
Note :As of now remove filter, i will post different blog adding filter to the existing report,



