How to toggle a visualization in Spotfire® Using IronPython Scripting

Introduction

There is no out of box functionality to toggle a visualization. We can use the below IronPython code to add or remove the visualization on a button click 

Code Sample

# Copyright © 2017. TIBCO Software Inc. Licensed under TIBCO BSD-style license.
from Spotfire.Dxp.Application.Visuals import *

page=Document.ActivePageReference
vizExists=False
for visual in page.Visuals:
	if visual.Title=="cTable":
		vizExists=True
if vizExists:
	page.Visuals.Remove(visual)
else:
	visual=page.Visuals.AddNew(VisualTypeIdentifiers.CrossTable)
	visualB=visual.As[CrossTablePlot]()
	visualB.Title="cTable"
# add a script parameter table referring to the Data Table required
	visualB.Data.DataTableReference=table
	visualB.ColumnAxis.Expression="<[Country]>"
	visualB.RowAxis.Expression="<[Manager]>"
	visualB.MeasureAxis.Expression="Sum([Spent])"

References

• API Reference: Page
• API Reference: Page.Visuals

License:  TIBCO BSD-Style License

Back to IronPyton Scripting in Spotfire Examples:  https://community.spotfire.com/s/article/IronPython-Scripting-in-Spotfire