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    Access miniatures in text areas via the API

    Sometimes the need arises to manipulate a text area using IronPython to change specific parts of the text area. However, when changing the html content of a text area using IronPython you often destroy the Spotfire dynamic contents (calculated v...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to adjust width and height of a visual through API (using python)

    Our dashboards have a large number of pages. Each page has the same textarea. It would be great to be able to set the width of these through an API call. Same for panels (e.g. make all filter panels same width on each page when showing)
    about 6 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...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Option to show custom application and document tools in any standard Spotfire menu

    As a developer or an administrator I want to show my custom tools in any native Spotfire menu, like File, Data or Help, or in a custom sub-menu below. This would give the flexibility to show custom functionality in more logical places when using ...
    over 6 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 8 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    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 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Remove 'Prepared Reports' via Spotfire API

    Create ability to remove prepared reports with the Spotfire API. Right now, I believe only viewing a list of existing reports and exporting existing reports is possible.
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    make script.WithParameters(params) work on WP@Linux

    Below IronPython script doesn't work on WP@Linux, res, script= Document.ScriptManager.TryGetScript('myScript') newScript = script.WithParameters(params) It fails with error "Operation is not supported on this platform." We use above API to enable ...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Font support for Mods

    There should be a Mods API to enable the developer to support the Fonts configuration for Visualization Mods so that it feels just as like native visualizations for the end user.
    over 3 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 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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