Property Controls have become a very powerful feature for building Guided Analytics in TIBCO Spotfire. When the underlying property attached to that control is used within an expression, the expression will re-calculate automatically when the property value changes. In other instances, when the property will be used in other locations, a Script Control is required to make updates to Spotfire when the property value changes. In Spotfire 6.0, it is now possible to associate a Script Control with a Document Property so that when the Document Property value changes, the associated Script will automatically be triggered. This eliminates the requirement to execute a Script Control by clicking on a button.
Let’s look at an example. Suppose we want the consumer of an Analytic Application in the Web Player to be able to toggle whether to sort a Bar Chart or not. We can create a Drop-down list Property Control which allows the user to select the values True or False.
This Control is attached to a Document Property. There is a new option for each Document Property where you can associate a Script to it.
You can do this by clicking on the ‘Script’ button, to either Create a new Script Control or associate an existing Script Control to the Document Property.
Now the Script is associated, every time the Document Property value changes, the Script will be triggered.
