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Add ability to specify column data types when importing programmatically from Excel.

I am currently running a script which will replace data tables with excel sheets through a simple file explorer interface. However I am noticing that Spotfire is automatically guessing the data type of a column based on the first n rows of data im...
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

Add API access to allow updating the width of scale labels using python.

This property is not currently exposed for use by python scripts. We have several use cases on our dashboards where we will toggle a visual between various reports using a python script (and it must be via python since we are doing things like cha...
about 6 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 8 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

Expand the ExportDataToLibrary API to include the options available in the UI

When exporting data to the library through the UI you have the option to apply filtering or marking. When using the API these options don't exist - you can simply save all data from the table.
about 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

expose API to write log to user action log

Customer would like to write log to user action log, in order to record usage and actions user has performed on a custom extension. Please expose API to do so if possible. Thanks.
over 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 2 Future Consideration

Allow use of the mashup JavaScript API within text areas

Allow use of the JavaScript API from within DXP files without the need for an actual mashup. There are features such as manipulating filters and markings that would be useful from JavaScript.
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

Include user guide with visualization mod

To make it easier to use a visualization mod, a user guide (a .md file or similar) can be inluded by the mod developer in the .mod file and be viewable to the end users in the Spotfire clients.
almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Mods 0 Future Consideration

Error of renaming column -- The length of the property name must not exceed 1000 chars

Hi Developers, We have a custom tool to rename columns which uses Spotfire function. There seems to be limitation on the column name where it must not exceed 1000 characters. How to reproduce: Insert calculated column Type an expression that excee...
over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

Public API to check/uncheck the "Show notifications about mismatches" option

When programmatically creating visualizations with two or more tables, it can be that the specified ColumnRelation(s) are enough to properly link the data but that not all columns involved in the visual are matched, i.e. the visual and tables are ...
almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

Custom tool context menu item text based on marking

GetMenuTextCore() does not have any option to get the CutomTool context. It would be great to have the option to show an item base on the current marking. Users want to see beter and more explicit descriptions in the context menu items : e.g. - w...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration