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Status Future Consideration
Product Spotfire
Categories API
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 28, 2017

Give user information via doc props: Groups, IsMobile

Please add some doc props that are present in all DXPs (like FiscalYearOffset) that will provide critical information. Two key ones are:

  • IsMobile? True/False - are we on a mobile device
  • Groups - what group(s) are the logged-in user in

This would save a great deal of time and effort in trying to obtain the above through Information links, JS and other.

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  • Guest
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    Feb 9, 2018

    I like the idea of both metrics and will up-vote, but I would like clarify one of them:

    IsMobile = Whether Tibco does it for us or we get an API to use, I want to be clear about what is needed. Through research and experiments, I've realized that screen resolution and browser type alone are not enough information to accurately classify a user as mobile. The pieces missing are physical monitor size [inches or cm], pixel density [dots/inch]. Technically, you need viewing distance too, but there's no way to get that digitally, however it can be estimated from the physical size. Whatever method is used, it has to account for those things.