Overview
Spotfire® Automation Services is a web service for automatically executing multi-step jobs within your Spotfire® environment. You can, for example, use Spotfire® Automation Services to deliver an analysis file to specific people, in a particular format, at specified times.
The Automation Services feature includes the following components:
- The Spotfire Automation Services Job Builder, which comes with a set of pre-defined tasks for immediate job creation. The Job Builder is accessed from the installed Spotfire client. No installation is required, but all users must belong to the group Automation Services Users, and have the Automation Services Job Builder Tool license enabled.
- An API for developing custom tasks for the Job Builder.
- The Automation Services area of the Spotfire Server web administration interface for scheduling and executing jobs. For more information, see "Automation Services job scheduling" in the Spotfire Server help.
- The Client Job Sender
command-line tool for executing jobs. To install this tool, you download and
extract the
Spotfire Automation Services
files from the
Spotfire Download site, and copy the files to a
computer in your
Spotfire
implementation. For details, see
Installing the Client
Job Sender.
Note: When using the Client Job Sender, you can set the execution schedule by using Windows Task Scheduler.