Add and/or Remove Tooltips in a Barchart Visualisation in Spotfire using IronPython

Introduction

The script walks through all pages and all visualizations on each page, and if it finds the correctly named visualization, there is a row to remove a tooltip, and also it adds a tooltip called MaxYear.

The name of the example visualization/Bar Chart in this script match one of the sample visualization that is installed in Spotfire. The example analysis is called "Introduction to Spotfire" and you need to add this script.

Code Sample

# Copyright © 2019. TIBCO Software Inc. Licensed under TIBCO BSD-style license.

from Spotfire.Dxp.Application.Visuals import BarChart

addThis="Max([Year]) as MaxYear"

for page in Document.Pages:
  print (page.Title)
  for vis in page.Visuals: 
    print ('-' + vis.Title + '('+ vis.TypeId.Name +')')
    if (vis.Title == "Largest 10 Countries by Population"):
      v=vis.As[BarChart]()
      for tip in v.Details.Items:
        print  "ToolTip - " + tip.DisplayName + " is -" + str(tip.Visible)
        if (tip.DisplayName=="Year"):
          print ("Year found")
          #v.Details.Items.Remove(tip)
      print (addThis)
      v.Details.Items.AddExpression(addThis)

References

• Spotfire Application API
• BarChartDetails

License:  TIBCO BSD-Style License

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