Overview

TIBCO Spotfire® Automation Services is a web service for automatically executing multi-step jobs within your TIBCO 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 TIBCO Spotfire® Analyst. 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 Client Job Sender tool for executing jobs that are created in the Job Builder. To install this command-line tool, you download and extract the Spotfire Automation Services files from the TIBCO eDelivery website, and copy the files to a computer in your Spotfire implementation. For details, see Installing the Client Job Sender.

The jobs that you create with the Job Builder can either be executed immediately from the Job Builder, or you can schedule the jobs to be executed periodically. To execute jobs periodically you configure the Client Job Sender to communicate with your TIBCO Spotfire® Server, and set the execution schedule by using Windows Task Scheduler. For information on setting up the Client Job Sender, see Job execution.