Could TIBCO deliver "native views" (materialized?), developed and maintained by TIBCO that could provide real insights in the Spotfire library? I am aware of this article (https://community.tibco.com/wiki/tibco-spotfire-metadata-queries), but it is not complete enough.
I am thinking on being able to find (list non exhaustive):
Orphans building blocks
Invalid data sources (with cause, affected information links, reports and so on)
Invalid information links (with cause, affected reports and so on)
Using joins with information links
Using filters and values in information links
Other values that can be seen from the GUI within Information Designer
Type and count of data tables for each report
Which particular packages are using in reports (like an in house developed extension for example - We had recently a case where we wondering which files / users had a particular plugin in their reports, requesting to test a newer version of the plugin)
Top report usage (who, when and so on)
Scripting content
Any other information that could be useful from an administration side
This would ease keeping the library in good shape, find out possible issues (allowing to fix them) before they are noticed on the user side.
Thank you for your consideration.
Kind regards.
The 'TIBCO Spotfire® Metadata Queries' article written by @Julieta Diaz is great, but I have a Postegres server as the backend of my company's Spotfire Library. TIBCO, please consider Metadata views for ALL TIBCO supported Spotfire server types (Postgres, MS SQL, Oracle, etc) for on-prem installations, not just Oracle instance.
Thank you Miguel for setting this idea Under Consideration.
Thanks Xavier. Those are good use cases. We are looking into improving library search usage and we are going to think on your suggestions.