Spotfire Ideas Portal
ADD A NEW IDEA

API

    calling an custom Export Tool from Iron Python

    te Excecute methot within the CustomTool API is not valid for an customExportTool (even if this inherits it). therefore there is no public method to be called from IronPython in order to trigger a custom export from a button for example. Furthermo...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to access binary columns

    Ability to pass through binary columns like images through to mods for rendering
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Introduce Styling Mods

    Spotfire design can by quite nicely twisted with CSS stylesheets and similar approaches, but Spotfire 'themes' are a bit limited in variety. Also it does not fit into the community idea of Spotfire Mods. The idea is to have "styling Mods" - from a...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Expose Lists to the Spotfire API

    Currently, Spotfire lists (as seen in the Lists panel) are not accessible via the IronPython API. This limits our ability to automate workflows that rely on lists, such as creating lists from specific column values and using list comparison tools....
    11 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Custom Expressions to be written using IronPython

    The current custom expression language is adequate for simple expressions, but having a full fledged python interpreter would greatly increase the readability and utility of these expressions/functions. Further, since the current custom expression...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 2 Future Consideration

    Allow Javascript API to reference specific visuals on a page

    I would like to request that the javascript api be allowed to reference specific visuals on a page and not just the whole page itself. This would allow greater reuse of existing DXPs as I could have a DXP used from within the normal Spotfire web p...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    add API to get/set canvas styling/theme

    Please add API to get/set canvas styling/theme. One of our customers wants to change is via IronPython for consumer users.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 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 2 Future Consideration

    The ability to reference C# dll from iron python on web player

    It is very helpful to be able to access C# dll's from Iron python on web player , For now it is only supported on Spotfire installed client and not web player without manually adding the dll to the Node Manager instance modules, which is not conve...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Retrieve the Source information tab from Data table properties

    Hi team, It would be very useful to have the ability to retrieve all information found in the Source Information tab of the Data table properties.Currently, we can only retrieve parts of that information using the GenerateSourceView method from th...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / API / Data Management 2 Future Consideration
    The material provided is for informational purposes only, and should not be relied on in making any purchasing or investment decision. The information is not a commitment, promise or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or functionality. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion. © 2026 Cloud Software Group LLC. All rights reserved. This page and your use is governed by these Terms of Use.