Enhance the mobile app analysis with location and bar code reading features
By using a few features available in Spotfire Analyst, you can add location awareness or bar code reading capability to an analysis for the Spotfire mobile app.
The following topics walk you through adding location awareness to a map analysis, and bar code or QR code filtering in a table that has a bar code or a QR code column.
- Location
Spotfire reserves two document properties for adding location services to an analysis. Such an analysis is designed to be used on a mobile device. The document properties are namedAppGeoLatitude
andAppGeoLongitude
and are of data typeReal
. - Machine-readable codes
A machine-readable code is a bar code or a QR code. Spotfire supports several types of codes. You can add a document property to your Spotfire analysis that enables a mobile device to scan a code and filter the results in a data set containing a column of codes.