Release Notes for TIBCO Spotfire® 3.0.0

This file contains important information about TIBCO Spotfire® 3.0.0

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System Requirements
Installation
Known Issues
  General
  Installation, Administration and Login
  Visualizations
  Calculations
Support

System Requirements

See the TIBCO Spotfire System Requirements page for a detailed description of the system requirements for TIBCO Spotfire 3.0.0.

Installation

1. First install/upgrade the TIBCO Spotfire Server to version 3.0.0
2. Install TIBCO Spotfire 3.0.0 Client
3. Finally deploy TIBCO Spotfire 3.0.0 on the TIBCO Spotfire Server 3.0.0

Known Issues

General

• If an unrecoverable error occurs the recommendation is to click Continue, save the current analysis under a new name and restart the application. Depending on the type of error this file might be broken, and cannot be loaded properly.
• Large Fonts (120DPI) sometimes causes lower half of screen and the rightmost part of the screen to be outside the physical screen.
• It is not possible to copy/paste more than 255 characters in a single cell from Excel.
• Date values in column names which have the cell formatting "d/m/yyyy" are interpreted as "m/d/yyyy" when importing from Excel.
• Avoid defining an update schedule for data table using a personalized information link. In other words, always use the "No sharing" alternative (which can be found in the Sharing Routines tab in Data Table Properties) for such data tables. This is the default value. Selecting other values may in certain cases result in unwanted sharing of personalized data.
• The application may behave unpredictable when loading a dxp file containing extensions that are installed on the client, but are not available in the configuration specified by the current server.

Installation, Administration and Login

• When installing on a 64-bit operating system the .NET framework must be pre-installed on the machine.
• If the .NET 2.0 framework is not previously installed it is always installed without prompting.
• The automatic download mechanism will fail if a restricted user tries to install the application as an administrator by choosing “Run As Administrator”.
• Not more than one administrator should simultaneously upload deployments.
• It is not possible to connect to a server from a machine in another NT domain by using Run As when launching Spotfire.
• If the product localization is defined as a user group preference, a client restart is required after the first contact with the server for the changes to be fully applied and taken into use. Note that clients are not informed of the fact that such a restart is required. It is also important that the appropriate localization packages are published to the 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.
• When connecting to a TIBCO Spotfire Server 3.0 using a TIBCO Spotfire 2.2 client, the application will not work unless it is upgraded to TIBCO Spotfire 3.0. This is done automatically by selecting the upgrade option in the dialog.
• If the TIBCO Spotfire Server 3.0 is setup to use Kerberos authentication, port 80 has to be used, see also http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908209

Visualizations

• Hardware graphics acceleration may not work on older graphics cards or if the drivers are not up to date.
• Certain graphics cards and drivers lead to crashes, slow response times, blank visualizations, or missing shapes when Spotfire hardware acceleration is used. This is known to happen on Dell Dimension 9200 / NVidia 7900 Graphics driver: version 7.15.11.5824 but may happen on other system configurations as well. Upgrading to the latest graphics driver may resolve these issues. If not, hardware acceleration can be turned off under Tools > Options > Application.
• The 3D Scatter Plot is not supported in a Citrix environment since the plot requires hardware acceleration.
• Value renderers developed with the TIBCO Spotfire 2.2 API are not supported.

Calculations

• Filtering in the Data Relationships results table will prevent re-calculating the Data Relationships. If the filters are reset Data Relationships can be re-calculated again.
• Using "limit data by marking" for a line chart used in K-means or Line similarity may produce unexpected results if data is reloaded or when using an on-demand table. The reason is that the marking may be different. Turn off the "limit data by marking" feature to avoid issues of this kind.

Library and Information Designer

• Accessing information model elements from the library browser or from Information Designer during information model import might lead to a crash of TIBCO Spotfire.

Support

To receive help with problems or to submit comments, please contact us at the TIBCO Support Web site or send an email to support@tibco.com. More news on TIBCO Spotfire® can be found in the online documentation or on the Spotfire web site.

The TIBCO Spotfire® team