Pressing keys programatically

Why reinvent the wheel when you can send keystrokes? for example, you can filter out marked rows or add a new visualization by sending keystrokes programatically

import clr
clr.AddReference("System.Windows.Forms")

from System.Windows.Forms import SendKeys, Control, Keys

#Filter out Marked Rows same as 
SendKeys.Send("(^+M)") #Ctrl+M

#Create a Box Plot 
SendKeys.Send("^+{5}") #same as Ctrl+Shift+5



List of shortcuts

Ctrl+A Mark filtered rows. 

Ctrl+B Bookmarks.

Ctrl+C Copy the marked records to the clipboard as text.

Ctrl+D Duplicate active page.

Ctrl+E Unmark Resets the set of marked records. No records will be marked after you have executed this operation. 

Ctrl+F Find.

Ctrl+I Inverts the set of marked records. Marks all unmarked records and unmarks the set of marked records.

Ctrl+L or Alt+L Toggles legends of a visualization on or off.

Ctrl+M Filter to, Sets the selection to the marked records. Creates a temporary filter so that only the marked records are visible.  

Ctrl+N New Page.

Ctrl+O Open an existing file or a file to import.

Ctrl+P Print the active visualization. 

Ctrl+R Reset all filters.

Ctrl+S Save the present visualization in the same format as when opened.

Ctrl+T Create a new text area. 

Ctrl+U Duplicate visualization.

Ctrl+V Paste the clipboard contents into Spotfire. 

Ctrl+Y Redo. 

Ctrl+Z Undo.

Ctrl+W or Alt+F4 Close.

Ctrl+Shift+M Filter out 

Ctrl+1 Create a new table.  

Ctrl+2 Create a new cross table. 

Ctrl+3 Create a new bar chart. 

Ctrl+4 Create a new line chart. 

Ctrl+5 Create a new combination chart.  

Ctrl+6 Create a new pie chart. 

Ctrl+7 Create a new scatter plot. 

Ctrl+8 Create a new 3D scatter plot.

Ctrl+9 Create a new map chart.

Ctrl+0 Create a new graphical table. 

Ctrl+Shift+1 Create a new tree map. 

Ctrl+Shift+2 Create a new heat map. 

Ctrl+Shift+3 Create a new parallel Coordinate plot. 

Ctrl+Shift+4 Create a new summary table. 

Ctrl+Shift+5 Create a new box plot. 

F1 Help.

F12 Save file.

Alt+Enter or Ctrl+Enter Opens the Properties dialogue. 

Delete Deletes the set of marked records.