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    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...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 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...
    over 5 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

    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...
    almost 4 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

    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

    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

    Make application of color schemes to other visualisations available in the API

    In a python script, I would like to be able to do the same as I do using the following steps in the GUI (e.g. for a scatter plot): Go to visualisation properties, Tab Colors. Press “Color Schemes” Button, “Apply to visualizations”. In the dialogu...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / API / Scripting 1 Future Consideration

    Visual Mods - ability to set default aggregation of column to 'None'

    When selecting a column in a Visual Mod we need the ability to set the default aggregation method to 'None'. Would be great if this could be customized per Visual Mod or even per column.
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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