Allowing Access for the Spotfire App in Microsoft Azure

To be able to access data from Microsoft SharePoint Online, the installed Spotfire client (Spotfire Analyst) uses the Spotfire registered app in Microsoft Azure.

To view your SharePoint data in Spotfire, you must allow the Spotfire app in Microsoft Azure to access your info. Typically you are prompted for this during the login procedure in your web browser.

The purpose of allowing the Spotfire app in Microsoft Azure to access your SharePoint data is for you to be able to access the data when you use Spotfire. Spotfire will not access your data without your express permission.

Note: To access SharePoint data in Spotfire in the on-premises Spotfire web client (for example, for Spotfire Business Author or Consumer users), you must configure your web player services to access SharePoint through your own application in Azure. See Enabling the Microsoft SharePoint Connector in Spotfire Web Clients.

Administrator consent

In some organizations, a user with administration rights might have to grant permission for the Spotfire app for your organization. In this case, when you try to log in, you might see the dialog Need admin approval below. This can happen for both your own registered app for Spotfire, or for the default Spotfire app.

This might depend on how you have configured the setting Users can consent to apps accessing company data on their behalf in Microsoft Azure. If it is set to No and a non-admin user logs in, they will see the Need admin approval dialog displayed above.

To solve this issue, you might need to do either of the following

Ask an administrator to grant admin consent for the Spotfire app in Microsoft Azure. See Grant tenant-wide admin consent in the Microsoft documentation for step-by-step instructions.
Ask an administrator to switch the setting Users can consent to apps accessing company data on their behalf in Microsoft Azure to Yes.

Note: A third possibility to solve this issue is for an admin to log in to SharePoint Online from Spotfire, and select the checkbox Consent on behalf of your organization in the consent dialog.

For more information about managing access for applications in Microsoft Azure, see Understanding Azure AD application consent experiences in the documentation from Microsoft.