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    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

    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.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 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...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Template to enable marking on Mods

    There should be a defined template that could be used to apply marking on variety of chart libraries such as Google charts, Plotly JS, D3 etc. Currently, there are no best practices available to enable marking and JS not being the strongest suite,...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    Wanted Spotfire CustomExportTool in its own menugroup

    Now we would like to put our CustomExportTool in a CustomMenuGroup, like we do for all our other CustomTool's.But the Spotfire API does not seem to have the option to include this CustomExportTool in a separate menu group, as it has for CustomTool...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Need ability to show or hide visualization based on button click (API Availability)

    The requirement is to show or hide visualizations (charts) in the spotfire report based on the button click. At present there is not APIs that we can leverage to achieve this functionality. Raising this idea to consider including this API for futu...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / API 3 Future Consideration

    API to set the page scroll position

    For Spotfire pages that are taller or wider than the screen, I would like to be able to set the scroll position through the API. This could enable me to scroll a specific visualization into view.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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