Changing the map interactive layer using Iron Python in Spotfire - with example

[Mark Lewis 2]

Hello,

I want to change interactive map layer using an Iron Pyhon script in Spotfire. However the Iron Python Spotfire online reference seems to be incomplete or lacking examples.

Can someone tell me how I might change the interactive layer, with a short Iron Python example?

TIA

Mark

[Gaia Paolini]

Try this script, where mymap is the map chart Visualization and layerName is the exact name of the layer you want to make interactive.

from Spotfire.Dxp.Application.Visuals.Maps import * mymap = mymap.As[MapChart]()for layer in mymap.Layers: if layer.Title==layerName: mymap.InteractiveLayerReference=layer

The complete Spotfire API is here:

https://docs.tibco.com/pub/doc_remote/sfire_dev/area/doc/api/TIB_sfire-analyst_api/?topic=html/N_Spotfire_Dxp_Framework_DocumentModel.htm

And there are several resources here:

https://community.spotfire.com/s/article/IronPython-Scripting-in-TIBCO-Spotfire

[Nik Majdan]

While looking for an answer to my question, I came across this post. This is very similar to what I'm trying to achieve. I use this whole loop-through-layers-and-match-on-layername process a lot.

My question is, is there a way to change a layer attribute without looping? If I know the name of the layer, can I set the attribute directly? Something like "mymap.Layers("layerName").IncludeInAutoZoom=True"

[Gaia Paolini]

I cannot see a way to point to a layer by name, I can only find it by layer number. Layers seem to be numbered from bottom to top starting at zero.

So this

mylayer=mymap.Layers[1]

will identify the second layer from the bottom.