How to manage custom toolbar configurations in TIBCO Spotfire Analyst client

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Article ID: KB0075526

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Products	Versions
Spotfire Analyst	10.8 and higher

Description

Spotfire administrators can define custom toolbar configurations for the different users/groups of the TIBCO Spotfire Analyst. To do this, the toolbar is modified as desired, the IDs for the custom shortcuts are copied, and the IDs are saved in the preference for the desired groups. See the resolution below for detailed steps on how to do this.

Note: This feature is present only in Spotfire Analyst and not in Spotfire Desktop.

Issue/Introduction

This article explains how to get the ID for custom shortcuts added in the TIBCO Spotfire Analyst toolbar so that custom toolbar configurations can be stored in the preferences for users/groups by the Spotfire administrator.

Resolution

Step 1: Configure the custom toolbar as desired. See KB 000042451 How to add the most used features to the TIBCO Spotfire toolbar (and remove them) for more details.

Step 2: To get the IDs for the custom toolbar shortcuts, perform the following steps:

Right click on the toolbar and choose "Customize toolbar..." to open the flyout.
On the right side of the flyout, click on the vertical three dot icon and choose "Copy toolbar IDs to clipboard".

Step 3: Finally, these IDs can then be used in the ToolbarShortcuts preference to define a custom toolbar configurations:

Login to TIBCO Spotfire Analyst as an Administrator.
Go to Tools > Administration Manager.
Select Preferences tab.
Select a group to which this setting should be applied. You can Select "Everyone" group if this setting is to be configured to all the users.
Edit the Preferences.
Select Application > Application Preferences > ToolbarShortcuts
On the String Collection Editor, paste the IDs copied from Step 2
Click OK