Spotfire® Mods Overview

Spotfire Mods is a lightweight framework for extending Spotfire with reusable visualization and action components called mods. By combining mods with other built-in Spotfire capabilities, such as self-service data access, data wrangling, visual analytics, and advanced analytics, you can create highly customized analytic applications directly within the Spotfire environment.

Introduction

A visualization mod looks, feels, and behaves just like a built-in Spotfire visualization and can be reused in different Spotfire analyses with different configurations and data sets, that can be either in-memory, in-database, or streaming data from any Spotfire-supported data source.

An action mod is a collection of actions (scripts) that can automate analytical tasks in a Spotfire analysis, such as creating and configuring visualizations, navigating to different pages and visualizations, preparing data, changing page layouts and much more. Users can initiate actions ad hoc from the Actions flyout or from the Spotfire library, or from action triggers that has been added to visualizations, text areas or document properties.

For information on how to develop mods, see Spotfire Mods® developer website.

For information about other customization options, see Extending Spotfire®.

Key Features

Look and feel like native Spotfire components for analysts, authors, and consumers.
Support for in-memory data, in-db data, streaming data, and data-on-demand from any Spotfire-supported data source.
Work the same in the Spotfire web client and the installed client.
Can be used on-premises, in a private cloud, or in the public cloud (TIBCO Cloud Spotfire) environments.
Can be used by an individual user, group, or organization in a multi-tenant environment (such as TIBCO Cloud Spotfire) without affecting other users, groups, or organizations that are using the same Spotfire environment.
Easily developed with modern web technologies.
Can be deployed by an individual for personal use or by an administrator for use by a group of users.
Can be distributed as a simple download from the Spotfire Community or any third-party website.
Security OOTB with new certificate-based trust model.

Try Mods

Check out Community Mods, our library of freely downloadable mods. Try them out directly on TIBCO Cloud Spotfire or download them from the Mods section on the Spotfire Community Exchange.

Getting Started with Mods Development

The Spotfire Mods® developer website contains all assets needed for mods development, such as guides, tutorials, API documentation, templates, and source code examples.

Trust & Certificates

A built-in trust mechanism helps you keep your system safe when using Spotfire Mods.

Working with Trust and Certificates

Governing Mods in Your Organization

Spotfire Mods allows any Spotfire user to add new visualization types to their Spotfire analyses. How mods are deployed and used in your organization can be centrally governed using licenses, preferences, and server settings.

Governing Spotfire Mods in Your Organization

Submitting Mods to the Spotfire Community Exchange

The Spotfire Community Exchange is a safe and trusted place for customers and partners to discover mods for Spotfire, and an opportunity for developers to show off their work and deliver industry-specific and useful mods vetted by Spotfire. Build your mod, review guidelines, prepare publication assets, and submit your mod for review to publish on the Spotfire Community Exchange.

Submitting Mods to the Spotfire Community Exchange

Q&A

If you have questions on how to use or develop mods, check out:

Spotfire® Mods FAQ
Forums - questions about mods usage or development
Stack Overflow - general development questions (use the Spotfire tag and other appropriate language tags)
Spotfire Mods GitHub Issues section - issues in the API or examples

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Additional resources

Availability

Visualization mods are supported in Spotfire® 11.0 or later.
Action mods are supported in Spotfire® 14.4 or later.

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