Renderer settings

If the data in a column can be shown as something other than text, like a link, an image, or a shape, you can configure this using the renderer settings in the visualization properties. The renderer settings is available in some visualizations only, for example in tables, but might also be used in some labels or tooltips.

Note: Some of the functionality described here can only be authored or accessed using the installed Spotfire client.

Note: If you apply renderer settings from the visualization properties, the settings are applied to that visualization only. If you apply renderer settings from the Add/Edit Default Renderer dialog in Tools > Options in the installed client, the settings are applied to all new visualizations.

Image from URL renderer settings

In the installed client, your Spotfire Administrator might have specified that only certain URIs should be allowed to link to. If that is the case, then a list of the Allowed URLs will be shown in the dialog. An administrator can add more addresses to the Whitelist for Allowed URIs preference found under Application Preferences in Tools > Administration Manager.

If an allowed URI includes a wildcard character (for example, http://*.example.com/), then you can use any path within that specified domain.

To make a directory on a company network location allowed, specify the path to the folder in the preference. The path must start with file://.

For example:

file://Q:\MyCompany\Images

Note: Because local network paths may be unavailable to other users, the recommended procedure is to use a URL rather than a local network path when publishing analyses to the library.

For users running Spotfire without a server, see Updating the whitelist for allowed URIs when running Spotfire Analyst without a server.

Width and Height

If the website allows, you can also specify the width and height of the rendered image (in pixels):

http://MyCompany.com/Images/{$}/image?width={$width}&height={$height}

If $width and $height are included in the link template, the image will be rendered using the width and height specified by your current table row height/column width, or, in the case of labels or tooltips, by the size set using the size slider. If not included, the default size will be rendered and changing the size will simply enlarge or shrink the default image.

Geometry renderer settings

If your data contains geometries, you can sometimes show the geometric shapes in the visualization.

In the installed client, you can also specify the Fill color, Border color, and the Border weight (thickness of the line) of the geometry.

Link renderer settings

This renderer is used to show the values in a column as clickable links.

Example:

If the link template is entered as follows, http://www.domain.com/{$}.html, the resulting link would redirect you according to the table below:


Cell value	URL
a	http://www.domain.com/a.html
b	http://www.domain.com/b.html
c	http://www.domain.com/c.html
d	http://www.domain.com/d.html
e	http://www.domain.com/e.html

Note: If your company wants to link to something other than http-addresses, an administrator has the possibility to modify the preferences Allow Additional Uri Schemes and Additional Uri Schemes in the installed client using Administration Manager.