How to use tm1-api in DBR and what to do with it? Any documentation?

Canvas Canvas Questions
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Hi there,

I always wanted to check what the tm1-api attribute is good for in a tm1-ui-dbr. Is there any documentation available? Canvas help does not give much information here.

Not sure if the tm1-api can somehow be used to achieve the following. Of course, any other idea to come to the same result also very welcome:

I have a DBR which users can directly enter, working as usual. However, next to this DBR, there is a complex dropdown menu where the user can pick from. Selected value is available in a JavaScript function, so far so good. But now how to put this value into the DBR? Workaround is to use a $tm1Ui.cellPut(…) and call a $tm1Ui.dataRefresh() afterwards, but that seems a quite heavy operation, not very fast when there are a lot of DBRs on one screen.

However, even if tm1-api cannot help here, I’m still interested to learn more about.

Thanks
Andreas

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Hi @andreas.franke,

For the tm1-api attribute, you can check some samples from the DBR page in the samples application, in particular, the Additional DBR APIs, that is directly applied panel.

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There are two functions exposed as of this time. These can be found in the Description part, in the Help section for the tm1-ui-dbr.

As for updating specific group of DBRs, applying a group into it might be able to help out. You can then use $tm1Ui.dataRefresh(< group-name >); afterwards.

You can checkout http://localhost:8080/samples/#/sample/component/dbr-group-update for an example on how to utilize the DBR Grouping feature.

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Paul