When flows of upper-air winds converge, they force air down, creating large areas of high pressure at the surface. When a river of upper air wind spreads out, it encourages air to rise from the ground, which creates a large area of low pressure at the surface.
What ever tab you are on, just open the Chrome Dev Tools by pressing F12. Once the chrome dev tools are open, just right click on the refresh button and a menu will drop down. This menu gives you the option of doing a hard refresh, or even clearing the cache and do a hard refresh automatically. It is a very small tip but is really useful in maintaining the workflow or reducing the number of steps to do the cache clearing task.
If your data source/table is linked and you would like to refresh without reopening your file, you can attach a script to a button that can do this. Spotfire manual: To add a script action link or button to the text area. Spotfire manual: Script to refresh table # Example script that refreshes a table driven by # a calculation, a data function # or an information link loaded on demand. # The script takes a parameter table of type DataTable if table.IsRefreshable and table.NeedsRefresh: table.Refresh()