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    API & Examples for unit testing Spotfire extensions

    As a developer, I find very important being able to unit test the code I implement for extending the Spotfire functionality: new visualizations, tools, etc. The documentation that comes together with the SDK has good examples about the different w...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 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.
    12 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    API to set table dependencies

    SF10.10.x reloads/refreshes the data tables based on the table creation order. So the first created data table is the first one to be refreshed while the last created table is the last one to be refreshed. This sequential operation allowed us to c...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    add API to manipulate property controls in text area

    Please add API to manipulate property controls in text area, such as adding/changing/removing available options in dropdown list or listbox.
    almost 4 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

    Group Custom Tools in the right-click context menu

    Request: When registering a Custom Tool on a Visualization should also allow the creation of groups like in the menu in Spotfire Professional. This change should also carry over to the Web Player.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add `ReplaceDataFlow()` method for `DataTableDataSourceOperations` class

    In IronPython API, DataSourceOperations class has the ReplaceDataFlow() method which allows Data Table replacement without affecting downstream Data Transformation steps, similar to manually replacing in Data Canvas (i.e., click on table > Repl...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 3 Future Consideration

    Programmatically set Details-On-Demand columns via Spotfire API

    Hello, in some situations it would be very useful to set the columns of the Details-On-Demand panel with a ironPython script. Do you think that could be included in a further evolution? Thanks. Mickael
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    make the intermediate ca certificate imported into spotfire server be used to build the certificate chain

    The command "config.bat import-code-signing-certificate" can import code signing certificate, root certificate and also intermediate ca certificate. However, intermediate ca certificate imported by above command isn't used to build certificate cha...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 7 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...
    12 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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