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TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

By : Michael Phillips
Book Image

TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

By: Michael Phillips

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
TIBCO Spotfire – A Comprehensive Primer
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating analysis snapshots using bookmarks


We've seen how lists and tags can help you remember, or snapshot, particular analytical positions. What if the snapshot you want to save is more complex and entails a set of filters, markings, and other customizations? In short, you've spent some time exploring some data and arriving at a particular scenario and you either want to share it with others or simply save it for yourself to return to later.

Bookmarks allow you to do just this, capturing specific rows you have marked, the page and visualizations you are looking at, any filtering that you have applied, information about visualization properties (such as the column selected to color by), and any custom property values you have used on the active page.

Let's look at an example.

  1. We'll stay on the Salary Analysis page, and we'll opt to color by League, filter by High Run Cost, and mark the NY Yankees.

  2. Now make the bookmarks panel visible by selecting Bookmarks from the View menu or clicking on...