Plotly - Save Settgins from "Edit Chart" webview

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Hi,

Really love the Plotly node; the full-featured web GUI for configuring the plot is such a great way to do things. I like how it separates the data processing from the presentation, which gets lost in some other libraries.

However, somethin I do lament is I don;t see mto be able to save the changes I make in the interactive editor to the node. There’s a save button, but that requires me ot sign in and I suppose is uploading the plot to the cloud. Sometimes I get an HTTP error back from the server because (I presume) KNIME has tried to POST a whole load of my data up to their servers.

I’d love to be able to save the settings I change in this UI to the node, as otherwise, it’s only ever a preview and temporary; as far as I can tell, I’m still limited ot the seettings in the node’s dialogue box that have first-class support. It seems the plotly UI outputs some JSON, so I feel somehting like that would seem the most intuitive way of enabling saving.

And if it is uploading to the cloud version, what would be better I think is to host the GUI locally under a temporary server in a sandbox, and open in a web UI that way.

Cheers

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Hey @stellarpower,

sadly this is out of our control. This feature makes use of the plotly internal editor which needs all of the data and offers you the possiblity to customize this chart. There is also no way for us to get back the changed plot and apply the same changed styles to the next run of the node.

What are the features/functionalities you are missing from the new view nodes?

Little sneak peak:
Tomorrow we will be releasing 5.2 and with it a new node called “Generic Echarts node”. With this node you can easily create custom visualisations with code or with the help of AI. Maybe this node will remove the need for the plotly views?

Let me know what you think.

Greetings,
Daniel

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