Spotfire Business Author license

The Business Author license contains the functionality for creating and editing analyses from the web client. (For technical reasons, some license features under this license might also be needed for administrative tasks in the web client.)

Note that any group with this license enabled also must have the following features enabled:

Spotfire Consumer > Spotfire Consumer
Spotfire Enterprise Player > Open File and/or Open from Library
Spotfire Enterprise Player > Save Spotfire Analysis File and/or Save to Library

Business Authors often also have access to other features from the Spotfire Consumer and Spotfire Enterprise Player licenses, depending on company policies. To be able to use custom expressions and predefined data functions in web clients, a business author user also needs a few licence features from the Spotfire Advanced Analytics license.


Feature	Provides permission to
Advanced Visualization Properties	Change all visualization properties using the Visualization Properties dialog or the Visualization properties panel. This feature also enables everything in the Change Column Selector and Simple Visualization Properties features.
Change Column Selector	Interact with column selectors and data table selectors in visualizations. It also allows users to adjust binning sliders and hierarchy sliders, and to alter the order of multiple columns on an axis.
Create Annotations	Create annotations within analyses.
Create Bar Chart	Create new bar chart visualizations.
Create Combination Chart	Create new combination chart visualizations.
Create Cross Table	Create new cross table visualizations.
Create KPI Chart	Create new KPI chart visualizations.
Create Line Chart	Create new line chart visualizations.
Create Map Chart	Create new map chart visualizations.
Create Page	Create new pages.
Create Parallel Plot	Create new parallel coordinate plot visualizations.
Create Pie Chart	Create new pie chart visualizations.
Create Scatter Plot	Create new scatter plot visualizations.
Create Table	Create new table visualizations.
Create Treemap	Create new treemap visualizations.
Create Waterfall Chart	Create new waterfall chart visualizations.
Customize Toolbar	Customize the toolbar by adding shortcuts and arranging them in the desired order on the toolbar.
Data Action Recommendations	Enable the option to get recommendations on data actions. For example, this could be to clean up the column values by removing whitespace characters.
Data Panel	Use the Data in analysis flyout (the Data panel).
Error Bars	Add error bars in visualizations.
Insert New Column	Add and edit calculated columns.
Manage Data Tables	Add and work with data tables in an analysis, as well as add data to start a new analysis. Enables the possibility to add new data tables and to see the Data canvas (the source view in which to edit data table structures).
Merge Data	Insert and merge additional data into a data table. This is done by selecting to add more data as new rows or new columns after choosing it in the Files and data flyout, or by inserting rows or columns between nodes in the Data canvas.
Open Empty Data	Open an analysis file even if a data source is unavailable.
Open File Data	Open local data files such as .txt, .csv,.xlsx, .xls, .stdf, and .sbdf files. Note: Users can always open *.dxp files if the Open File feature that is included in the Spotfire Enterprise Player license is enabled for them.
Open Information Links	Open data from information links.
Open Library Data	Open data files stored in the library.
Open Library Data Connection	Open data from data connections in the web client (provided that the data connection was previously stored in the library using Spotfire Analyst).
Recommendations (before 10.0)	Access to the previous Recommended visualizations dialog.
Replace Data	Enable the Replace data button on the toolbar of the Data canvas, and also the Replace data source option for a selected data node. The available sources from which data can be replaced are determined by the 'Open... ' license features.
Replace Values in Visualizations	Replace values in the context of a table visualization or in the Details-on-Demand. This is applicable to in-memory data only.
Simple Filter Panel Properties	Access the context menu that is used for switching filter types and resetting filters.
Simple Visualization Properties	Change visualization properties using the axis selectors. Access to the Markings panel from the View menu where you can create and edit markings. Access to the Document properties panel from the View menu where you can view and select document properties. To add or edit document properties, you also need the Advanced Document Properties license feature under the Spotfire Analyst license. This feature also enables everything in the Change Column Selector license feature.
Spotfire Business Author	Access the Spotfire Business Author. Note: You also need this license to be able to move, edit or delete files from the web view of the library (even if you have Browse + Modify + Access rights to a library folder and mainly work with Spotfire Analyst).