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    Improve Configuration UI for Complex Action Mods

    Enhance the usability and flexibility of the configuration interface for Action Mods, particularly for more complex implementations. As mods grow in complexity, the current configuration window can become crowded and difficult to navigate, making ...
    7 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Embedding Data Functions within Action Mods

    Enable support for embedding data functions directly within the Action Mod package, rather than requiring them to be stored and referenced separately in the Spotfire Library. Currently, Action Mods depend on externally managed data functions, whic...
    7 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Enable Data Connection Management from Action Mods

    Extend the Mod API to allow Action Mods to interact with Spotfire’s data layer, specifically to create, modify, or trigger data connections. Currently, Action Mods cannot: Create new data connections (e.g., databases, APIs, local files) Modify...
    7 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add Document Properties to a Text Area via an Action Mod

    Currently, it is not possible to create a Text Area and embed Document Properties or other objects directly through an Action Mod. While it is possible to: create and edit Text Areas, and create or modify Document Properties via the mod, the...
    7 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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    API for Text Area Action and Property Controls

    Developers would like to be able to create text areas, properties and input controls in the text area that manipulate those properties. One example would be to have a tool that would perform an S+ calculation. A user of Spotfire could launch a too...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / API 11 Future Consideration

    Add access to user's jwt token in Spotfire API

    When using oAuth2/OIDC for authentication it would be great to have access to the user's jwt token in the API to make use of it in e.g. a custom data source or an IP script to authenticate the user in other systems with the same token (e.g. via an...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 3 Likely to implement

    Mods trusted in Spotfire server should be trusted in Web players automatically

    Mods trusted in Spotfire server should be trusted in Web players automatically. As of now Spotfire web client is checking the mods certificate though its trusted via adding Mods cert as trusted certificate in Spotfire server and trying to connect ...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Parallel Data Loading via the API

    Parallel Data Loading is a feature available from Spotfire 11.4. https://community.tibco.com/s/article/tibco-spotfirer-parallel-data-loading-faq However, the parallell loading currently only happens when opening the .dxp file or when adding multip...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Mods API for formatting of calculated values

    To render calculated values in a mod (e.g. to display a continuous scale) there is a need for an API to get the values formatted according to the settings made in Spotfire, similar to what's achieved with row.continuous("Y").formattedValue().
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    Allow urls and external content to be opened from Mods

    Currently urls and external content is blocked in mods, so it is not possible to add a link in a Mod for someone to click on. It would be very useful to be able to display links in Mods such as links to other Spotfire tools, external content and i...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 2 Future Consideration
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