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    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 / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add method to the JavaScript mashup API to check if Spotfire is 'ready'

    I'm working on a framework to automate Spotfire Web Player interaction through Selenium. Very often when writing Selenium based tests I need to interact with Spotfire in some way (e.g. change the active page) and then wait for Spotfire to be 'read...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    API to get display name of an axis expression

    By default, the display name of an axis expression has slightly different syntax than the expression itself, e.g. "Max([col1])" is displayed as "Max(col1)". The display name is needed for several use cases, e.g. as category key in a color scheme a...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Allow triggering a customTool with prompt from IronPython on the web player

    Currently a custom tool can be called from an IP script on the web player. However, prompting is simply ignored. Please implement an API that enables this scenario.
    10 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to synchronize a mod property between multiple instances of a mod

    I built a mod which serves as a kind of filter panel, and is replicated on multiple pages in my dxp. This mod provides some UI controls, like input fields, to let the user change the values for the filters (like the min and max time for a time ran...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    notify when mod is synchronized from library to dxp file

    Please notify when mod is synchronized from library to dxp file (which refers to a mod saved in library), when the mod in library is updated. Currently there is no notification when synchronization occurred, and dxp won't change to dirty state eit...
    11 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Information Links to TDV Virtual Views migration

    Various Spotfire customers rely on 1000's of Information Links. Since IL's can't keep data external current investments in new and fast In Memory DB's (like SAP HANA) can't be leveraged fully. Moving away from IL's is a tedious task when there are...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Get setting for empty data in Mod

    Spotfire allow users to configure the behaviour of a details visualisation when no items are marked in the master visualisation. In order to completely mimic the behaviour of a native Spotfire visualisation a Mod needs know that the user has confi...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Missing API for Graphical Table.CreateLayout

    We found out that we have APIs to programmatically scroll table plots, summary table and cross tables using API var table = visual.As<SummaryTable>();layout = table.CreateLayout(); But we do not have such API for Graphical tables. This is a ...
    over 5 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...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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