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    Add JavaScript mashup APIs to interact with visuals

    I'm writing Selenium based tests and would like supported APIs for interacting with visuals on a page: Get the visualisation type. Get the title of the visual. Export table data associated with a table (assuming that it is allowed by the visual p...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add a method to the JavaScript mashup API to get the current notifications/errors

    I'm working on Selenium based tests for Spotfire reports and one of the checks I perform is that no errors are shown in the notification area. Currently, I achieve this by checking the content of the Spotfire DOM, then clicking on buttons to show ...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add methods to the JavaScript mashup API to maximize visualisations (and restore back to normal)

    I'm working on Selenium tests for our Spotfire analytics. In some cases we want to compare images captured of Spotfire visuals. Comparison of images is only possible if the images are the same size, so we ensure this by maximizing the visual befor...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    Ability to customize context menu for a mod

    I'm currently using popouts in multiple mods to let users change the settings of those mods (e.g. the shapes of nodes in a network graph mod, or enabling / disabling UI controls in a 'filter panel' mod). To display those popouts I'm currently usin...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Support JSON data type of PostgreSQL

    Unfortunately, TDV doesn't support JSON data type when working with a PostgreSQL database.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 To be Reviewed

    ironpython api reference documentation in python

    The API documentation to understand parameters and methods are in C# and is not python friendly. Is it possible to have another comprehensive resource just like it but in python?
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Excel file(xls/xlsx,etc) Import API

    Customer wants custom tool to import multiple excel files at once. To create a tool to do this, reading excel file/sheet is required, which requires basically microsoft's office driver. On combination of 64bit OS + 32bit office driver, a 32bit pro...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Upgrade API for visualizations (e.g. move axis positions)

    The API allows toggling e.g. from scatter plot to bar chart (which is useful when e.g. sometimes you need to visualize the outcome of a classification and sometimes the one from a regression). However, different chart types sometimes need a differ...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Folder browser dialog running in web browser

    It is useful because users can select a folder to export with IronPython without installing API on the server. Now if you use the FolderBrowserDialog() in Spotfire Analyst (Windows) it works, while in Spotfire web client does not work. It reports ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API / Export 0 Unlikely to implement

    Add method in IronPython API to export visualization (as-is) to Excel

    Currently, the CreateDataWriter method is available to export to Excel (reference); however, this export strips any formatting in the underlying visualization - e.g., Table. Spotfire v14.x offers an in-UI feature to export visualizations, as-is (r...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / API / Scripting 0 Future Consideration
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