On Demand Data without using information links

#This script finds selected items in a cross table so you can pass them to a stored procedure or something

from Spotfire.Dxp.Application.Visuals import VisualContent
from Spotfire.Dxp.Data import DataValueCursor
from Spotfire.Dxp.Data import IndexSet
from Spotfire.Dxp.Data import RowSelection
from Spotfire.Dxp.Data import DataPropertyClass 
  
myCol = "phoneBrands"
items=""

#vis can be a script parameter pointing to a Cross Table Visualization
vc=vis.As[VisualContent]()
dataTable=vc.Data.DataTableReference
marking=vc.Data.MarkingReference

#1 Create a cursor to the Column we wish to get the values from
#You can use any column you want from the datatable
markedItems = marking.GetSelection(dataTable)
cursor = DataValueCursor.CreateFormatted(dataTable.Columns[myCol])

#2 loop all rows
i=0
for row in dataTable.GetRows(cursor):

   #2.A if the row is marked..
   if markedItems.AsIndexSet()[i] == True: 
      #2.A.1 add an item if the item is not already in the items string
      #you can pass this string to a stored procedure. Example output: "nokia,samsung,sony,apple,"
      if items.find(cursor.CurrentValue)==-1:
         items = items + "," + str(cursor.CurrentValue).Replace("'","''")
 
i = i + 1


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