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allow action mod to copy & paste via clipboard

Please allow action mod to copy & paste via clipboard, so we can utilize mod to pass information between spotfire and external system. One use case is that we want to develop an action mod to copy columns information to clipboard, which was av...
8 days ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

add API to get the maximum number of clusters in dendrogram in heat map

Please expose API to get the maximum number of clusters in dendrogram in heat map. AKA, the maximum value that can be assigned to heatmap.RowDendrogram.PruningLevel. The use case is that we are trying to use a silder (placed in text area) to contr...
9 days ago in Spotfire / API To be Reviewed

allow to specify default value for Actin Mod parameters

Please add option to allow to specify default value for Actin Mod parameters , e.g. (numberic updown, text field, dropdown list ,etc. In case of an action that has parameters, lots of customers just want to run it with all options filled with defa...
about 1 month ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

add API to manipulate CheckBoxHierarchyFilter

One of our customers would like to use the API (via an IronPython script) to manipulate the CheckBoxHierarchyFilter in the following ways: (1) Get the search results. (2) Perform all four actions ("Select", "Deselect", "Select Other Values", and "...
about 2 months ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

expose spotfire's logging API for custom extension to use

This idea originated from a discussion with the engineering team. We have been using the standard log4net API to write to Spotfire's standard log files by referencing the log4net.dll bundled with the product. + Spotfire.Dxp.SupportDiagnostics.log ...
about 2 months ago in Spotfire / API To be Reviewed

Extending API for DXP metadata

Currently Spotfire Library Metadata Agent could not answer to some useful prompts related to metadata like "What pages and bookmarks are in DXP xxx?". As checked with the support this is an API limitation. So accessing to details like page names, ...
about 2 months ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

Allow customization of NotificationService timeout duration

Currently, notifications displayed through the NotificationService in the top-right corner disappear automatically after a fixed period of time.It would be valuable to allow developers to configure the notification timeout duration, for example: ...
2 months ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

Enable X-axis label rotation(Vertical/Horizontal) for the Pareto Chart Mod

The Pareto Chart Mod currently cannot display X-axis labels vertically, causing unreadable text when many categories or long names are present. Expose a LabelOrientation property (like the native bar chart) to allow vertical text. IronPython worka...
3 months ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization Future Consideration

A way programmatically to migrate and change the types to solve the problem

This is related to Support ticket 2559163. The exception is thrown before constructor deserialization, so the developer can't catch that exception. The fix is to throw the exception when deserializing the explicit immutable property.
3 months ago in Spotfire / API To be Reviewed

add API to get the data type of a document property in action mod

We want to get the data type of a document property, e.g. for (const p of document.Properties) { // get the data type of p here } const p = document.Properties.Get("my-property-name"); // or get the data type of p here The name of the property is ...
4 months ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration
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