Release Notes for TIBCO® Spotfire® 3.3.3
This file contains important information about TIBCO® Spotfire® 3.3.3.
For the latest version of this file, see
Release notes for TIBCO® Spotfire® 3.3.3.
Content
System Requirements
Installation
Known Issues
General
Installation, Administration and Login
Visualizations
Calculations
Library and Information Designer
Support
See the TIBCO® Spotfire®
System Requirements web page for a detailed description of the system requirements
for TIBCO® Spotfire® 3.3.3.
- First install/upgrade the TIBCO® Spotfire® Server to version 3.3.2.
- Install TIBCO® Spotfire® 3.3.3 Client.
- Finally, deploy the TIBCO® Spotfire® 3.3.3 distribution on the TIBCO® Spotfire®
Server 3.3.2.
- If an unrecoverable error occurs the recommendation is to click Continue, save the
current analysis under a new name and restart the application. Depending on the
type of error this file might be broken, and cannot be loaded properly.
- Large fonts (120DPI) sometimes cause the lower half of screen and the rightmost
part of the screen to be outside the physical screen.
- Avoid defining an update schedule for a data table using a personalized information
link. In other words, always use the "No sharing" alternative (which can be found
in the Sharing Routines tab in Data Table Properties) for such data tables. This
is the default value. Selecting other values may result in unwanted sharing of personalized
data.
- The application may behave unpredictable when loading a dxp file containing extensions
that are installed on the client, but are not available in the configuration specified
by the current server.
- Text Area Action Controls using Python scripts require .NET 2.0 SP2 (Assembly
version 2.0.50727.3053).
- You will be prompted for a username and password if using Support Diagnostics in
TIBCO® Spotfire® while using a TIBCO® Spotfire® Statistics Services with authentication
enabled. No TIBCO® Spotfire® Statistics Services information will be displayed if
cancelling or failing to supply the correct username or password.
- When installing on a 64-bit operating system the .NET framework must be pre-installed
on the machine.
- On a 32-bit operating system, if the .NET 2.0 framework is not previously installed
it is always installed without prompting.
- The automatic download mechanism will fail if a restricted user tries to install
the application as an administrator by choosing Run As Administrator.
- It is not possible to connect to a server from a machine in another NT domain by
using Run As when launching TIBCO® Spotfire®.
- If the product localization is defined as a user group preference, a client restart
is required after the first contact with the server for the changes to be fully
applied. Note that clients are not informed that such a restart is required. It
is also important that the appropriate localization packages are published to the
TIBCO® Spotfire® Server prior to setting the user group preference.
Note that the correct Language pack and the matching server preference must be set
on the very first server that the user connects to. Changing the settings on the
Server will not have any effect. If the localization group preference does not have
any effect, it can be enforced on clients using Tools | Options.
- When connecting to a TIBCO® Spotfire® Server 3.3.2 using a TIBCO® Spotfire® 3.0
client, the application will not work unless it is upgraded to TIBCO® Spotfire®
3.3.3. This is done automatically by selecting the upgrade option in the dialog.
- On very slow networks TIBCO® Spotfire® can in rare cases crash if a timeout occurs
while trying to download the manifest file from the TIBCO® Spotfire® Server.
- It is not possible to connect to the TIBCO® Spotfire® Server using a revoked certificate
or a certificate without a revocation list. Workaround: In Microsoft® Internet Explorer®,
go to Internet Options/Advanced and clear the Check for server certificate revocation
option.
- Hardware graphics acceleration may not work on older graphics cards or if the drivers
are not up to date.
- Certain graphics cards and drivers lead to crashes, slow response times, blank visualizations,
or missing shapes when hardware acceleration is used. This is known to happen on
Dell Dimension 9200 / NVidia 7900 Graphics driver: version 7.15.11.5824 but may
happen on other system configurations as well. Upgrading to the latest graphics
driver may resolve these issues. If not, hardware acceleration can be turned off
under Tools > Options > Application.
- The 3D Scatter Plot is not supported in a Citrix environment since the plot requires
hardware acceleration.
- Value renderers developed with the TIBCO® Spotfire® 2.2 API are not supported.
- Filtering in the Data Relationships results table will prevent re-calculating the
Data Relationships. If the filters are reset Data Relationships can be re-calculated
again.
- Using "limit data by marking" for a line chart used in K-means or Line similarity
may produce unexpected results if data is reloaded or when using an on-demand table.
The reason is that the marking may be different. Turn off the "limit data by marking"
feature to avoid issues of this kind.
- Accessing information model elements from the library browser or from Information
Designer during information model import might lead to a crash of TIBCO® Spotfire®.
To receive help with problems or to submit comments, please contact us at the TIBCO Spotfire Customer Support site or send an email
to support@tibco.com. More information on TIBCO
Spotfire® can be found in the online documentation or on the
TIBCO Spotfire web site.
The TIBCO® Spotfire® team