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    add option to display text right after the checkbox input parameter for action mod

    Please consider below two for checkbox ("type": "Boolean") input parameters. (1) add option to display text right after the checkbox (2) add option to disable the menu (for changing input type) shown after the checkbox
    5 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    add option to disable any of the input type options for action mod input parameter

    Please add option to disable any of the input type options for action mod input parameter as shown in attached screenshot. The use case is that we only need to use "Columns" to select 1 or more columns. Then we need to extract the name of all sele...
    5 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    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

    Control over on-demand table settings in API

    Hi, It would be nice to be able to control the on-demand settings of data tables through the API. Just as one can modify filterings and markings of visualisations, the same would be very useful for data table settings as well. Thanks, Laszlo
    over 9 years 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...
    over 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

    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

    Ability to access binary columns

    Ability to pass through binary columns like images through to mods for rendering
    over 2 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 ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 2 Future Consideration

    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...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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