TIBCO LiveView Web New and Noteworthy

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1 TIBCO LiveView Web New and Noteworthy Introduction TIBCO LiveView Web is an HTML5 and WebSockets powered client application for visualizing data from TIBCO Live Datamart 2.1 servers. In LiveView Web (hereafter, LVWeb), you create tabbed pages of laid-out cards, where each card visualizes data from a live continuous query. Card configuration starts with a query builder (or can start with a manually typed LiveQL query), and displays results using visualizations such as tabular grids; line, bar, or pie charts; or region or geographical maps. Parameters, chart links, tooltips, actions, and formatting options allow you to fine-tune each card s behavior. Release Release is a feature release primarily introducing two new major features. Embedded Mode LVWeb now includes a new embedded mode which allows users to integrate LVWeb cards into their own web applications. Cards can be embedded by using HTML iframes that load a specially-crafted URL (accessible via settings->export- >Embedded URL), or programmatically by using the new lvweb-embedded JavaScript API (settings->export->embedded Configuration). The JavaScript API provides more control and interaction with the embedded card. As an exemplary use of this new feature, embedded LVWeb cards are easily added to TIBCO Spotfire using the TIBCO Spotfire JSViz Custom Extension: visit the TIBCO Community for Spotfire to download and install the LiveView Web Embedded Custom Extension. Integrated Alert Rule Management UI LVWeb now includes an integrated alert rule management user interface (previously alert rules could be managed by accessing a separate user interface at The new alert management UI is readily available via the side bar under Alerts as a new tab. While presented differently and integrated into the LiveView Web look and feel, no new functionality related to alert rule capabilities is present in LVWeb 1.3 as they depend on the Live datamart server installation. Other Enhancements The grid visualization now supports row level conditional formatting.

2 The chart visualization now supports conditional formatting. Release Release is a significant upgrade that fixes a number of bugs, and provides many new features and enhancements. Library LVWeb now includes a new feature called Library. The Library gives users access to all the cards that they have created and allows adding them to more than one page. As a result of this feature, the Delete option in the card settings menu has been replaced with a Remove option. Users can now delete cards from the Library when the card is not used in any page. Sharing LVWeb now includes a new feature called Sharing. The Sharing feature allows users to share their own cards with others. Users can view cards shared with them in the Shared with me tab. From there, users are able to add the shared cards to any of their pages. Users can view all the cards they are sharing with others in the Shared by me tab. Users can access their card sharing settings via the Share card option in the card settings menu or via a link displayed for each card in the Shared by me tab. Single Value Card LVWeb now includes the Single Value visualization, allowing any card to present a single, text value whose font size scales to fit the height of the card. Consider using this visualization type to display a large KPI for example, or summarize the last or most important value recently seen. RegionMap Visualization Enhancements RegionMap visualization now supports links, in-place drill-down, conditional formatting and actions. Additionally you can control the display value as well as the tooltip value shown in the visualization. Chart Visualization Enhancements Chart visualization now supports control lines and flipping negative values, rendering negative values with a different color, and a fixed x-axis in the middle of the chart. Users can now stack series. Two-way SSL (x509) Support LVWeb now supports two-way SSL (x509) based authentication. Please refer to the LiveView Server System Configuration page of the Live Datamart Administration Guide to learn how to configure Live Datamart for x509 based authentication.

3 Other Enhancements HeatMap visualization now supports multiple colors and actions. The action editor has been redesigned for better user experience. GeoMap visualization now supports a right click context menu on markers to configure actions menu instead of a long press. Drilldown pie visualization supports showing a combination of category value, raw value, and percentage value in labels and tooltips for the slices. LVWeb supports a configurable favorite icon. Copy-To, Move-To and Remove Dialogs were enhanced to consider link relationships on the page. The Query Editor supports isnull and isnotnull. Known Issues Un-sharing cards shared with users with admin privileges stills shows the card to them o Workaround: Do not share cards with users with admin privileges Deleting a card from the library does not remove the card from the library o Workaround: Close and reopen the library Release Release is a maintenance release that fixes a number of bugs, provides new features, and updates the lvweb-copy tool. Theme Support LVWeb ships with a new sample sample_ lvweb themes which showcases how to add a custom theme. LVWeb supports a variety of application styling options and header icon customization via CSS. Send Tuple Visualization LVWeb now includes the Send Tuple visualization, allowing any card to present an interactive field-and-value interface to send a tuple to a target StreamBase CEP engine. This card allows the user to trigger business actions at any time without the need for a data item contextual action. Custom/Dynamic Icons in Geo Map Geo Map now supports custom icons for data markers. Users can configure custom icons from within the Geo Map Editor, including the ability to generate icon URLs from the data received. lvweb-copy Tool Update The lvweb-copy tool now supports copying of resources using the --resource flag. Caching From LVWeb onward, users will no longer be required to clear their browser s

4 cache in order to upgrade to a new version. Release Release is a maintenance release that fixes a number of bugs, provides new features, and updates the lvweb-* authentication tools. Authentication Tool Updates The authentication tools were updated to run from any location. There is a new lvweb-db command that allows you to back up and restore your LVWeb authentication database. In addition, there are new --grant, --revoke, and --resource options for the lvweb-permissions command that allow for setting up permissions without creating permissions files. When using a permissions file with the lvweb-permissions i or --import options, lines in the file are now configured in the order read, from top to bottom. In addition, the sense of merging when using these options is now inverted, compared to the previous release. That is, when importing permissions from a file, merging with existing permissions for the specified user is always enabled. You can now disable this new default with the o option. For details, see LiveViewWeb_Authentication.pdf, which was thoroughly revised and reorganized for this release. New Property to Designate New User Template There is now support for a system property, liveview.web.template.principal, that you can specify in a project s sbd.sbconf file with a <sysproperty> element. Set the value of this property to the name of a user or role in the liveview.auth.properties file that is to serve as a template for newly added usernames. Thereafter, usernames newly added to LDM automatically get all the authentication settings and resources of the configured principal username or role, as if an lvweb-copy command had been run between the two names. Updates for the LVWeb Sample The sample now uses the recommended H2 database format to store its authentication settings and resources. Updates in Parameter Handling LVWeb now deduces the data type of parameters and does the necessary translations of parameter values. This means that quoted parameters are no longer necessary. Existing queries that use single or double quotes to escape parameters ( $parameter ) are now automatically migrated.

5 TIBCO GeoAnalytics Maps Updates A formerly reported Known Issue was that only one Geo Map could be placed on the same page. This was corrected to allow multiple Geo Maps. Geo Maps now also have support for Display Format, Tooltip, Conditional Formatting, and Action features. Miscellaneous Updates LVWeb visual elements now respond to Start Over snapshot start events sent by the server, and know to discard existing data in favor of the newly incoming data in these cases. The permissions.tempate file shipped with the authentication tools was renamed to lvpermissions.template. Fixed: opening and closing an existing grid-based card could result in an unsaved changes warning dialog. This was corrected. Fixed: the unsaved changes dialog could also result when opening and closing a region map based card. This was corrected. Release Release is a maintenance release that fixes a number of presentation bugs, and provides documentation for the authorization tools. Release Release 1.1 of TIBCO LVWeb is now available. LVWeb 1.1 is a significant upgrade that provides the following new features and enhancements. New User Interface LVWeb 1.1 introduces a new user interface that guides you on your first login, highlighting the major actions in the interface. A new Help menu links to short, instructional videos that show you how to use individual features. The overall layout was tightened, with refined toolbars, and a cleaner look overall. New Visualization Types LVWeb 1.1 includes three new visualization options: Geo Map, powered by TIBCO GeoAnalytics, allows you to display maps of geographical areas with active data markers updating in real time. This visualization allows you to monitor the location of packages, trains, vehicles, or other moving items on top of real-world imagery. Tooltips for individual markers allow you to display details for the selected item. Tree Map allows you to display hierarchical data using nested rectangles to represent the branches of a tree diagram. Each rectangle has an area proportional to the amount of data it represents.

6 Area Range allows you to display data that varies within a known range, such as high-low temperature readings for each day in a month. Usability Updates Pages can now be renamed. Cards can now be copied, moved, or duplicated. The Info icon for a card only appears if that card has its Card Description field filled in. If so, the description appears as a tooltip when hovering over the Info icon. Export from cards. You can export a snapshot image of a card, or a snapshot of its current data, or both, depending on the visualization type. Most cards support both export types. Creating and Editing Cards This release provides a new, graphical visualization chooser, replacing the drop-down list of visualization names. The query builder now includes time window features. In the Edit panel for any card, the Save button is moved to the top and is now accompanied by a Revert button. Changes for Alerts Alerts now show only in the page s titlebar, and no longer cover part of nearby cards. Alerts now automatically close after a few seconds. There is a new Alert Viewer icon in the page header, shaped like a bell. The number of unseen alerts shows as an overlay on this icon. Click the icon to open the Alert Viewer window where you can configure alert filters, select the columns shown in the Viewer, and open the Alerts configuration page in the LiveView Monitor pages. Buffering, Pause, Slowdown Features Buffering for LVWeb is now the same as the TIBCO LiveView Desktop client. Previous LVWeb releases buffered at a rate of three times a second, where LVWeb 1.1 buffers at twice a second. This buffering rate applies to all card types provided by LVWeb, as well as any custom visualizations you provide. Cards now have a slowdown feature. Hover over a card and press the Shift key to slow the rate of that card s updates enough to see fast-changing data. This feature applies to LVWeb-provided card types and all custom visualizations. Cards now have a Pause button in their toolbars, allowing you to pause the update of data to that card for up to three minutes. The Pause button is toggled to a Play button; click Play to resume. Custom visualizations also have this feature.

7 Custom Visualization Improvements The plug-in system that allows JavaScript developers to create custom card visualization and query types was refined. You can now register your plug-in with more control over JavaScript library loading. You can create cards that do not need a query managed for you. Authentication with LVWeb If your Live Datamart project is set up to use authentication and authorization, you must configure each LVWeb user to specify the resources (dashboards, pages, cards, and linkages) that each user has access to. See the file LiveViewWeb_Authorization.pdf for instructions. The sample project provided with LVWeb in the lvweb-samples.zip file shows a project with authentication enabled. As shipped, two users are validated: admin (password admin), which has ownership rights over all pages and cards. All dashboard changes made by user admin are visible to all validated users. guest (password guest) has a read-only view of the resources configured by the admin user. Copyright 2017 TIBCO Software Inc. All rights reserved.