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Creating Extensions to the Spotfire Platform

A Spotfire solution to a complex problem may require a design with several specialized extensions. Still, a single extension based on an SDK example project will often do. The examples are fully functional solutions to common problems, and there are many ways to combine them.

Overview

Developers use the Spotfire SDK and the Spotfire API to automate, integrate and extend the TIBCO Spotfire platform. This page outlines the categories of solutions that can be created by describing the extensions available in the SDK.

See also the following related topics:

  • Understanding the Spotfire Development Platform
    The Spotfire platform can be extended programmatically. It provides concepts and APIs to solve analytic problems by adding custom capabilities.
  • Developing on the Spotfire Platform
    A Spotfire extension is the smallest functional unit added to the platform. It is developed in Visual Studio® and is included in a Spotfire AddIn, enabling versioning, licensing, deployment and loading.
  • Spotfire SDK
    The SDK provides required Spotfire developer resources: the Spotfire Extension Project Template, development assemblies, example projects, and the Package Builder application wrapping the extensions for deployment.
  • Licensing an Extension
    A Spotfire license controls access to a specific extension. The license is enabled in the Administration Manager tool for the group which should have access to it.