Disabling 'Show Filter Panel' preference setting does not work in Spotfire Web Player.

Disabling 'Show Filter Panel' preference setting does not work in Spotfire Web Player.

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Article ID: KB0070908

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Products Versions
Spotfire Web Player 10.4, 10.3.1 (HF-004 and below)

Description

If you set the 'Show Filter Panel'  preference setting to 'False'as shown below (using the Administration Manager tool), it would hide filter panel for Web Player users in Web Player.

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However, in Spotfire version 10.3.1 (HF-004 and below) and 10.4, even though you set 'Show Filter Panel'  preference setting to 'False', it does not hide filter panel in Web Player in these Spotfire versions.

Issue/Introduction

After disabling the show filter panel preference setting, filter panel is still visible in the Spotfire Web Player

Environment

All

Resolution

This issue has been fixed in Mainstream Spotfire release i.e. 10.5 and also fixed in LTS release 10.3.1 - HF-005
To fix this issue you need to perform below steps:

- Users who is using Spotfire version 10.4, they need to upgrade to current Mainstream version which is 10.5.

Note: As this issue has been already fixed in latest Mainstream Spotfire release 10.5, so there will be no hotfix for Spotfire 10.4 version.

- Users who is using Spotfire version 10.3.1  (HF-004 and below), they need to apply hotfix HF-005 or above.

Note: You can download and apply Spotfire Clients (Analyst, Web Player (Consumer/Business Author) and Automation Services) hotfixes from below link:  https://support.tibco.com/s/hotfixes

You can also refer TIBCO Spotfire Releases – Mainstream and LTS (Long-Term Support) using below link:
https://docs.tibco.com/pub/spotfire/general/LTS/spotfire_LTS_releases.htm

Additional Information

You can read more about "Show Filter Panel" preference in Spotfire Analyst's Administration Manager User’s Manual.User-added image