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Standard configuration UI for visualization mod custom properties

A Visualization Mod typically comes with a number of settings with which users can configure the appearance or behavior of the Mod. These settings can be either axis selectors or properties. Axes selectors are automatically displayed in visualizat...
over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

Improve Configuration UI for Complex Action Mods

Enhance the usability and flexibility of the configuration interface for Action Mods, particularly for more complex implementations. As mods grow in complexity, the current configuration window can become crowded and difficult to navigate, making ...
5 months ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

Allow Embedding Data Functions within Action Mods

Enable support for embedding data functions directly within the Action Mod package, rather than requiring them to be stored and referenced separately in the Spotfire Library. Currently, Action Mods depend on externally managed data functions, whic...
5 months ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

Enable Data Connection Management from Action Mods

Extend the Mod API to allow Action Mods to interact with Spotfire’s data layer, specifically to create, modify, or trigger data connections. Currently, Action Mods cannot: Create new data connections (e.g., databases, APIs, local files) Modify...
5 months ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

Add Document Properties to a Text Area via an Action Mod

Currently, it is not possible to create a Text Area and embed Document Properties or other objects directly through an Action Mod. While it is possible to: create and edit Text Areas, and create or modify Document Properties via the mod, the...
5 months ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

Perform "Resize Columns to Fit" and "Size to Fit" from IronPython Script

Customer would like to perform "Resize Columns to Fit" and "Size to Fit" on table plot from IronPython Script.
over 2 years ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

Mods API to read/write column sort order

Add API methods to read and write the sort order for specific colums- to discover its current sort order settings, and to alter it as required - either a default for the data type, or to specify a custom sort order.
almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

Enhancement to create custom tool API

Custom tool API allows us to specify the tool name/license/menu category/icon ... These custom menus automatically show up in the 'customize toolbar ...' area. We have a large number of such custom tools that we would like to hide from 'Customize ...
about 5 years ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

Information Link creation/editing api

Need the ability to add/remove/edit information links through an api. This would be ideal through the server web service api, but the c# api will work as well. This api should give the ability to edit all aspects of an information link, with the h...
about 7 years ago in Spotfire / API Planning to implement

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 Future Consideration
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