Optimizing a dashboard using URL parameters

In some cases, you might need to provide a Spotfire Web Player analysis to users of a small-screen mobile device. You can easily customize the analysis for the small screen, and then share the URL with small-screen users.

Perform this task from the analysis in the web client browser window.
Note: This technique works only if users access the analysis from a fixed URL. If the users access the analysis by navigating in the library, these settings have no effect.

If you have users who use the Spotfire Mobile App, you should avoid this optimization technique. If a user opens an analysis in the Spotfire Mobile App, the parameterized URLs will not work.

Procedure

  1. On the menu bar, select File > Share > Copy link.
  2. In the Copy link dialog, click Advanced.
  3. Set Presets to Small.
    By default, with the Small preset, no options are selected, which indicates that the menu options and UI elements are hidden in the shared analysis. See the Copy link dialog for detailed information.
  4. Make sure the options to display are selected.
    Note: The options you selected are specified with number-logical value pairs at the end of the URL, with each number corresponding to the option and the logical value, 0, or 1, specifying whether to display the option. See the Spotfire blog post Parameterizing your Dashboard for more information.
  5. Review and copy the URL.
  6. Test the resulting analysis by opening a browser window and pasting into the address bar the copied URL.
    The analysis should appear with none of the excluded display options and UI elements.
    Note: The new analysis URL does not include data selection, filters, resizing, or other manual changes that you set on any of the analysis' visualizations before you copied and shared the URL.