Spotfire File Reader

This node reads data from a Spotfire Data File. It can read files from the local file system or from the Spotfire library. It currently only supports SBDF files (Spotfire Binary Data Format).

The node also complies with the latest KNIME file writer standards and so you can use knime://knime.workflow/file.sbdf (to write to a location relative to the root of the workflow folder) or knime://knime.mountpoint/file.sbdf (to write to a location relative to the root of the workspace folder).

Note: Only SBDF files are currently supported!

To read from the Spotfire library, the URL must be in the format http(s)://spotfireserver:port/spotfire/libraryPath/file - note that there is NO file extension - do not put .SBDF on the end of the name of the file!

IMPORTANT! You must use the Spotfire application server (Spotfire Server), not the web server (Consumer/Business Author). Also, you MUST make sure the url contains /spotfire/ immediately after the server name.

Recent enhancements:
July 2026: Updated to work with KNIME 5.8 and later. Updated to work with Spotfire 14.6.
December 2023: Updated to work with KNIME 5.x and Spotfire 12.x and 14.x
December 2022: Updated to work with KNIME 5.1 and later. Updated to work with Spotfire 12.x and Spotfire 14.x
September 2022: Updated to work with KNIME 4.6 and later. Added support for binary columns. Many, many bug fixes.
IMPORTANT NOTE: May no longer work without valid certificate over https...
See: https://community.spotfire.com/articles/spotfire/knime-and-spotfire-integration/ for details
February 2020: Better logging for https communication, various bug fixes, ability to ignore SSL certificate errors
January 2020: Bug fixes for uploading to https Spotfire servers
October 2019: Many fixes and updates
February 2017: Major overhaul of architecture; updated to work with Spotfire 7.5 and later; many bug fixes

Options

Selected File

The name of the file to read from. Must end in .SBDF when reading from the local file system or have no file extension when reading from the library

Username and Password

The username and password for the user with upload privileges on the Spotfire library. The user must have permission to read from the folder specified in the URL

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Links

• Open spotfire .dxp files?by izaychik63 on 2020-09-24

  forum.knime.com/p/103976

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