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    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 ...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / API / Export 0 Unlikely to implement

    Increase or remove the limit for the number of x-axis values

    Currently the Area Chart can show at maximum 10000 values on the x-axis. This is too few for some data sets.
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Mods / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Improve JS Mashup API

    Cannot get a full data table; can't explicitly call IronPython script - only through workaround; cannot extract individual visualisations from a DXP
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    PDF Reporting Public API

    The new PDF output of visualizations could be very useful if it was accessible via a public API. One can create prepared reports but those are too defined for most self-service scenarios. It would be very useful if there was a public API for creat...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    expose API to configure preferences for groups

    We have some Spotfire Analyst custom modules that utilize preferences to store settings, and these settings are in json format so it's difficult to modify it using text editor so we provide a custom tool to do this. To apply these settings to pref...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    A global API to force synchronous data-function execution

    The default behavior for data-functions is to run asynchronously. In some cases, we need to force the data functions in an analysis to run synchronously. We truly need a global flag that can be set via API to force all data functions in the analys...
    about 5 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...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Coloring Class Apply() missing expected parameter

    Scenario In. dxp, users may apply a colouring scheme of a visualization to another per this guide (https://docs.tibco.com/pub/spotfire/6.5.0/doc/html/color/color_applying_a_color_scheme_to_another_visualization.htm). Doing so provides users an opt...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Multiple language support in visualization mods

    It should be possible to have support for multiple languages in a visualization mod. The mod developer should be able to add text resources for multiple languages for UI texts used in the manifest or JavaScript code. It would be nice if existing p...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Mods 1 Future Consideration

    Add a standard way to provide about information and help for Mods

    It's possible to add links to add pop-ups and buttons that links to additional documentation inside a Mod, but it would be better if access to help and about information was handled by the Spotfire framework to make it consistent across all Mods. ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Mods 0 Future Consideration
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