Spotfire® Server and Environment - Installation and Administration

Enabling an RSS feed in the Spotfire login dialog

Spotfire Server can be configured to display messages to end users in the login dialog, such as news of upcoming scheduled maintenance. One option is to specify a path to an rss.xml file that is located on a Spotfire Server; in this case the XML file is updated manually. The other option is to specify the URL to an external RSS feed.

Procedure

  1. If you are using an rss.xml file that you will update manually, copy the file to the following directory: <server install dir>\tomcat\webapps\spotfire.
  2. Open a command-line interface and export the active configuration (the configuration.xml file) by using the export-config command. (For details on using the Spotfire command line, see Executing commands on the command line.)
  3. On the command line, use the config-login-dialog command to set up the feed.
    Note: Make sure that the specified RSS feed complies with the standard RSS 2.0 specification, and that the source is available to the end users' clients.
    Note: To enable all users see the news in the login dialog, set the display behavior setting (-s value) to "always". The login dialog will be shown to all users, even if they opt to save their login credentials for automatic login.
    Example using a relative URL on the Spotfire Server:
    config config-login-dialog -s always -R "/spotfire/rss.xml"
  4. Import the configuration file back to the Spotfire database by using the import-config command.
  5. Restart the Spotfire Server service.