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We have a dashboard that shows the departments agenda. Each day, a new version is saved to a shared network drive and reloaded into a Spotfire dashboard. The data column is rendered as this agenda.png. But the dashboard doesn't pick up the daily changes. I created a support case for it, and it seems this can't be done. So it would be handy, not only for agenda's but for other items as well, to load an image that is not static.
You can acheive this by replacing the column with a calculated expressions with the following syntax: concatenate([column name],'?',DateTimeNow())
Hi Niklas, yes, it is still working :-). My customers are happy with this. So, please go ahead and close the issue.
Kind regards,
David
Hi again David, just wanted to confirm that the workaround still worked out for you? If so I will close the issue.
Hi Niklas, it looks like it is working fine. We have seen this morning that the updated image was indeed 'captured' by the dashboard, via scheduled updates.
So far so good :-).
Thank you David, please let me know what you find after testing.
Hi Niklas,
It seems that our colleague Giorgi Dundea, has found a workaround. If you replace the column value with a calculated expressions with the following syntax: concatenate([column name],'?',DateTimeNow()) it works. We have tested this workaround, and it seems to hold up. We'll keep on testing this, the coming days, but if it holds, it could be the solution for this kind of problems.
Hi Niklas, the idea is to have a data table, with only one column & one row. That value is then rendered as an image, which is the image stored on a shared network drive. Now, I'm not sure if the updated image is loaded only if the value of this column is also changed, or that it just doesn't matter. But we thought that, no matter what, the image would always be reloaded from the network share, as the data table is linked to source.
Many thanks for contributing your idea David. Just to make sure I get all the details, how would you like to visualize the image? Are you trying it in a table, or as a label, or in a text area, or something else? Or were you thinking this could be a new visualization type?