Plugin author reference guide

This reference guide supposes that you have already skimmed through the Writing your own plugin and the howtos referenced from here, which provide an introduction to the main concepts

• Plugins and components
  • Plugin
  • Component
• Parameters
  • Describing parameters
    • Available parameter types
      • Types for custom recipes
      • Types for custom macros
    • Selects
  • Plugin-level configuration
    • Add settings to a plugin
    • Read settings of a plugin
• Writing recipes
  • Recipe roles
  • Advanced options for custom recipes
    • Select from flow view
    • Change icon color
• Writing DSS macros
  • Macro roles
  • Result of a macro
    • HTML
    • URL
    • RESULT_TABLE
  • Interacting with DSS in macros
  • Progress reporting
  • Security of macros
    • Impersonation
    • Permissions
• Writing DSS Filesystem providers
  • Paths
  • Creating a custom FS provider
    • Instantiation and teardown
    • Object inspection and listing
    • Object modifications
    • Data read/write
• Custom chart elements
  • Color palettes
  • Map backgrounds
• Other topics
  • Managing dependencies
    • Packages
    • Code environments
    • Shared code
    • Resource files
  • Categorizing recipes and datasets
  • Custom settings UI
    • Interactions in auto-generated forms
    • Fully custom forms
      • Including additional files
    • Fetching data for custom forms