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    Allow urls and external content to be opened from Mods

    Currently urls and external content is blocked in mods, so it is not possible to add a link in a Mod for someone to click on. It would be very useful to be able to display links in Mods such as links to other Spotfire tools, external content and i...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 2 Future Consideration

    Allow customization of NotificationService timeout duration

    Currently, notifications displayed through the NotificationService in the top-right corner disappear automatically after a fixed period of time.It would be valuable to allow developers to configure the notification timeout duration, for example: ...
    4 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to disable storing data in the undostack to prevent continuous increase in memory consumption when data is refreshed

    Per request from the Support team (Case#02157929), I am creating this urgent feature request. The customer(s) are severely impacted by the continuous memory consumption when the open template (a dashboard) has automatic refresh every n minutes. At...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 5 Future Consideration

    add API to manipulate CheckBoxHierarchyFilter

    One of our customers would like to use the API (via an IronPython script) to manipulate the CheckBoxHierarchyFilter in the following ways: (1) Get the search results. (2) Perform all four actions ("Select", "Deselect", "Select Other Values", and "...
    3 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    allow action mod to copy & paste via clipboard

    Please allow action mod to copy & paste via clipboard, so we can utilize mod to pass information between spotfire and external system. One use case is that we want to develop an action mod to copy columns information to clipboard, which was av...
    about 2 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Trellis for visualization mods

    Trellis is a very powerful way of visualizing and comparing data in different parts. Spotfire Mods framework should natively support Trellis. I would like the Mods API to automatically provide the Properties configuration dialogue like in bar char...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    add API to get the maximum number of clusters in dendrogram in heat map

    Please expose API to get the maximum number of clusters in dendrogram in heat map. AKA, the maximum value that can be assigned to heatmap.RowDendrogram.PruningLevel. The use case is that we are trying to use a silder (placed in text area) to contr...
    about 2 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Provide the public API to resize the table plot columns to fit

    Spotfire currently provide the menu to resize the table plot columns to fit the content. But the public API is unavailable.
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    please expose API to export visualization to excel file

    please expose API to export visualization to excel file, aka utilize below functionality in IronPython script or Action Mods https://ideas.spotfire.com/ideas/SPF-I-42 SPOT-2150 14.0.0 Export tabular visualizations to Microsoft Excel with preserved...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Programmatic extraction of the active layout in Spotfire

    An API call would be needed to extract the layout information from a page in an active Spotfire document.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration
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