Opening the BPM Spotfire Analysis File

To load the template visualizations from the BPM Spotfire Analysis file, you must open the file in TIBCO Spotfire.

Procedure

  1. Copy spotfire.zip from the location where you installed TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM (for example, C:\Program Files (x86)\tibco\amx-bpm\bpm\n.n\samples where n.n is the version number of the BPM runtime you installed) and extract the TIBCO AMXBPM Template EMBEDDED.dxp file that it contains.
  2. Depending on the type of database you are using for your BPM database, configure the machine where TIBCO Spotfire is installed to connect to your BPM database. The following table describes this:

Database Description
DB2 You must install an IBM DB2 ODBC Driver.
Oracle You must:
  • install an Oracle 11g Release 2 Client.
  • configure a service name in Oracle Net Manager. Refer to your Oracle documentation for information on how to do this.
SQL Server No extra configuration is required.

  1. To open the BPM Spotfire analysis file, do the following:
    1. Login to your TIBCO Spotfire Client.
    2. Click File > Open. The Open File dialog displays.
    3. Browse to the location of your BPM Spotfire Analysis File. For example, c:\temp\
    4. Select the TIBCO AMXBPM Template EMBEDDED.dxp file and click Open. The BPM Spotfire template visualizations display.