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    Mods API to tell what changed in the data view

    For performance reasons it could be beneficial to differentiate between color changes vs data or axes changes. Calculate the position of graphical elements may be quite compute intense. If you'd know that only the colors had changed the the posit...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    GitHub link in visualization mod configuration

    Add the ability to provide a GitHub link (or similar) in a visualization mod's configuration and have that link be visible in the end-user UI.
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Highlight selection and callback in the Mods API

    Add support in the Mods API for highlight selection, similar to how it works for marking. When hovering over a visual element it should be possible to via the API set a highlight selection for the data points represented by the visual element. Oth...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Show values for an axis in the legend of a visualization mod

    Add the ability to show values for an axis in the legend of a visualization mod. This should work in the same way as for the Color axis, where the user can click on the values to mark that selection.
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    visualization guid-s analyst vs webplayer

    when dxp is being created in analyst - guids of visualizations are set. once the same dxp has been opened in web, the guids were regenerated. we need to have the same reference (guid) in both analyst as well as webplayer to be able to reference th...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Needs API to undock Custom Panel

    Currently, there is no API available to achieve the popover(dock/undock) of custom panel. And have a custom Panel where the Pin icon that docks/undocks the panel is missing. So this request is to have the ability to add dock/undock icons to custom...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    API to create kmeans clustering calculation

    Customer would like to use Python to create kmeans clustering calculation so it would be very helpful if related API is made publicly available.
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    Support all types of columns through the JavaScript mashup getDistinctValues method

    The getDistinctValues method can through an API error for certain types of columns (dates, hierarchies, booleans, long integers). This request is to support returning all types of data through this API.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add method to the JavaScript mashup API to check Spotfire version

    I'm working on Selenium based tests for Spotfire reports. Some tests need to vary depending on the Spotfire version (e.g. clicking on the export menu option is different in 10.x versus 7.x). It would help if there were a supported API to check wha...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Provide method (CanReplaceDataFlow) for DataTableDataSourceOperation class

    For File DataSource and Information Link Data Source it is possible to replace only parts of how the data table is constructed w/o impacting the rest of the data table construction (see e.g. https://community.tibco.com/s/article/How-to-replace-the...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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