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    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

    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....
    about 1 year 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

    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

    Spotfire Mods vs Native Visuals

    After working extensively with Mods in production scenarios, one limitation keeps surfacing over and over: Mods operate on a materialized data view, while native visuals operate on top of Spotfire’s semantic layer. This difference might seem subtl...
    6 months ago in Spotfire / API 3 Needs Info

    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

    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

    Drill Through into detail in ERP Systems

    BI tools is often used for analysis of ERP data on aggregated level. Analysing e.g. production, sale or finance data, you might come to a point where not all details are available through the BI tool. For these cases, users would sometimes value a...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Lines and Curves > Label and Tooltip...>Value (y) > Format...

    I would like to be able have this as part of the API so I can write an IronPython script to change the format between number and percentage based on a drop-down property.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API / User Experience 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
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