Managing Custom Plug-ins

Plug-ins are extensions to expand visualization options in the Data Visualization platform/application. These plug-ins or extensions can be imported to the application by your CIC Analytics administrator. Alternately, administrators can simply download custom-plug-ins from the Analytics Library Extensions for Data Visualizations or click Options on a custom plug-in and select Download. Custom plug-ins, once downloaded by an administrator, are available to all users having Analytics Creator privileges to use in their visualization.

Note: Contact your CIC Analytics administrator to manage custom plug-ins or extensions as outlined below.

Managing Custom Plug-ins

As an administrator or a user with administration privileges, you can upload, download, search, and delete custom plug-ins.

For example, you can upload a custom plug-in that provides a visualization type that you can use in workbooks.

To upload a custom plug-in that provides a visualization type which can be used in workbooks:

Sign in as a user with administration privileges.
On the Home page, click the Navigator, and then click Console.
Click Extensions.
You use this page to upload, search for, delete, or download a custom plug-in.
To upload a custom plug-in, click Extension and perform one of the following actions.
- Browse to the required plug-in file in your file system, and click Open to select the plug-in.
- Drag the required plug-in file to the Upload Custom Plugin object.
If the uploaded custom plug-in file name is the same as an existing custom plug-in, then the uploaded file replaces the existing one and is displayed in visualizations.
Refresh the page to view the uploaded plug-in.

To delete a custom plug-in:

Click Options on the custom plug-in, and then select Delete.
Click Yes to confirm the deletion.
If you delete a custom visualization type that’s used in a workbook, then that workbook displays an error message in place of the visualization. Either click Delete to remove the visualization, or upload the same custom plug-in to ensure the visualization renders correctly.

Using Custom Plug-ins

As a user, you can perform any of the following tasks:

On the Home page, select a workbook, click the Actions menu, and then select Open.
Select the Visualize tab of your workbook.
Perform any of the following tasks.
- If the plug-in provides a visualization type, you can select that type from the list of available visualization types when you create or switch the type of a visualization.
- To search for a custom plug-in, enter your search criteria in the Search field and click Return to display search results.

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