Customize app behavior

In addition to customizing strings, images, and settings, you can modify certain app behaviors to change the user experience.

The configuration file that controls app behavior is MyConfiguration.plist. It is located in the DeploymentKitApp project hierarchy, as displayed in the Xcode Navigator.

location of MyConfdiguration.plist in Xcode.

You can control the following behavior using this file.

  • At startup:
    • Authenticate through a Spotfire Web Player login page rather than the login service.
    • Preconfigure a Spotfire Web Player server connection. See Configurations for a custom login page for single sign on for more information.
    • Open a specific analysis document in Analysis view.
    • Browse a Spotfire library at a specified URL.
    • Open a web page at a specified URL.
  • Disable adding or editing Spotfire libraries.
  • Disable adding and removing analyses in the Gallery view.
  • Add custom menu items (with text and custom icons) below the Recently Viewed item in the sidebar menu. This is useful for displaying custom web pages to present a selection of analyses to load.
  • Hide the Gallery view.
  • Hide the Recently Viewed view.
  • Specify a URL to download a list of analytics document URLs on a Spotfire server for display in the Gallery view.
  • MyConfiguration.plist file
    The file MyConfiguration.plist, provided in the DeploymentKitApp project, is a standard Apple XML plist file containing keynames and their allowable values. MyConfiguration.plist also refers to example string resources, settings, and images, which are contained in the DeploymentKitApp project. You can customize theMyConfiguration.plist with values that are appropriate to your customized app.
  • Defining keywords for dynamic configuration values
    For all string type values in the MyConfiguration.plist configuration file, you can specify special keywords in the value string to cause the app to find the value in string resources or in settings. This task demonstrates specifying the title and icon for a custom menu item in the app's sidebar menu.
  • Configurations for a custom login page
    If your enterprise uses a custom login page or other server that implements single sign on, or if it redirects users to authenticate, you can specify a full or partial url that points to that authentication server and displays a popover web page view in the app with the custom login page for users.
  • Setting start-up action
    You can customize the start-up action for your app.
  • Disable user actions and views
    You can disable the appearance of several views in the app, and you can control whether the user can add or edit libraries and Gallery view entries.
  • Adding custom menu items to the sidebar
    You can add custom menu items in the sidebar below the existing default Gallery and Recently Viewed items.
  • Configuring application usage tracking
    You can control whether application usage data is tracked and how it is shared by setting the options found in Settings Bundle file root.plist and the DeploymentKitApp file MyConfiguration.plist.
  • Specify Gallery view analyses
    You can use the value for the key PopulateGalleryFromUrl in the configuration file MyConfiguration.plist to specify a URL to connect to and then download a list of analyses to populate the Gallery view when the app starts.
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