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Spotfire Scripts not trusted

I am creating some Spotfire files where I use IronPython scripts to be able to export and import values from text files, on user demand. However when I relocate the Spotfire to someone else, the scripts cannot be executed.

When going to the action control, Script, Available Scripts, the scripts are there but there is a remark: 'Not trusted. Click edit...... and approve ...'. However others are not that familiar with scripting so I dont want them to go through this every time I send a new Spotfire file. Does anyone have experience here, or know how to pass the secrurity measure? Or make these steps simpler?

Source of security measure: http://stn.spotfire.com/stn/Configure/ScriptingIntroduction.aspx "For security reasons you should always examine and approve a script that is not listed as trusted before executing it."

Any ideas are appreciated,

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Solution

  • if you are using Spotfire Server, ask your admin to add you to the Script Authors group. DXPs saved with scripts by members of this group will automatically be trusted.

    note that this is regardless of being a member of the Administrators group; permissions of the Script Authors are not automatically granted to admins who are not also members; it is not a license-based permission like others. you can easily solve this by making the Adminisrators group a member of Script Authors.

    N.B.: the Author Scripts license is not the same as being a member of this group, but obviously you have this license already!

    EDIT: upgrading to Spotfire 7.0+ will improve the usability of trusting scripts, prompting users to trust the script as soon as the document is open.