A document opened in a running instance of TIBCO Spotfire is referred to as an Analysis Document. The document not only contains a series of metadata information (see DocumentMetadata), but it also contains references to the data itself (see DataManager), and to various other components being part of the document, such as pages, filterings, bookmarks, etc.

As soon as data has been opened in TIBCO Spotfire, an instance of this class can be accessed through the Document property of the AnalysisApplication. This is regardless of whether the data was opened through the user interface or programmatically. Hence, new instances of this class cannot be created through calls to the constructor.

When a document is opened in TIBCO Spotfire using the user interface, the document will be automatically configured to be ready for use. This includes creation of a new page and adding a default visualization to that page. When opening a document through the API, however, it is empty. To achieve the same result as opening the document through the user interface, a call to the AutoConfigure  method must be made.

[SerializableAttribute]
[ToolContextAttribute]
[PersistenceVersionAttribute(14, 0)]
public sealed class Document : DocumentNode, 
	IDataPropertyContainerOwner, IPageChangedTriggerProvider

[SerializableAttribute]
[ToolContextAttribute]
[PersistenceVersionAttribute(14, 0)]
public sealed class Document : DocumentNode, 
	IDataPropertyContainerOwner, IPageChangedTriggerProvider