Spotfire® Mods Overview

Spotfire Mods is a lightweight cloud-enabled framework for adding new interactive visualization types, called visualization mods, to Spotfire. 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.

Introduction

Spotfire Mods is a lightweight cloud-enabled framework for adding new interactive visualization types, called visualization mods, to Spotfire. 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.

By combining Spotfire Mods with other built-in Spotfire capabilities, such as self-service data access, data wrangling, visual analytics, advanced analytics, embedded BI, and reporting, you can create highly customized analytic applications directly within the Spotfire environment.

Spotfire Mods greatly expands the types of visualizations accessible to Spotfire Analysts, Authors, and Consumers by enabling customers, partners, and 3rd party developers to easily build and distribute new visualization types to the Spotfire community. This makes analytics available for more business users who get access to a rich set of fit-for-purpose specialized visualizations for different business problems.

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

Key Features

Look and feel like native Spotfire visualizations 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 in both Spotfire Analyst (Windows) and Spotfire Consumer/Business Author (web) without any special code.
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 visualization 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

Visualization mods are quickly developed with web technologies, such as JavaScript and HTML. A simple API gives you access to Spotfire functionality and you can easily integrate any third-party JavaScript visualization library.

The Getting started guide describes the steps needed to get a mod running in development mode, inside Spotfire.
The Spotfire Mods GitHub repository contains all assets needed for mod 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

Spotfire Mods are available on TIBCO® Cloud Spotfire™ and on all other Spotfire environments with version Spotfire® 11.0 or later.

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