Plugin author reference guide

This reference guide supposes that you have already worked through the plugins tutorial.

• 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
• Component: Recipes
  • Recipe roles
  • Advanced options for custom recipes
    • Select from flow view
    • Change icon color
• Component: Macros
  • Macro roles
  • Result of a macro
    • HTML
    • URL
    • RESULT_TABLE
  • Interacting with DSS in macros
  • Progress reporting
  • Security of macros
    • Impersonation
    • Permissions
• Component: Web Apps
• Component: Filesystem providers
  • Paths
  • Creating a custom FS provider
    • Instantiation and teardown
    • Object inspection and listing
    • Object modifications
    • Data read/write
• Component: Custom Fields
  • Defining a set of Custom Fields
    • Objects definition
    • Custom Field definition
• Custom chart elements
  • Color palettes
  • Map backgrounds
• Git integration in the plugin editor
  • Viewing history
  • Reverting
  • Working with branches
  • Working with a remote
    • Handling conflicts
    • Merging branches
• Other topics
  • Managing dependencies
    • Packages
    • Code environments
    • Shared code
    • Resource files
  • Categorizing recipes and datasets
  • Custom settings UI
    • Interactions in auto-generated forms
      • Using visibilityCondition with a Boolean type
      • Using visibilityCondition with a SELECT type
    • Fully custom forms
      • Including additional files
    • Fetching data for custom forms