Make plot_code a Parameter

[MarcSkovMadsen]

Request

Change plot_code from a function to a parameter. Or document how to automatically update the plot code in some output cell in a notebook.

Motivation

I love that the fact that I can export my explorer work as code.

But I would like the code to be able to just update automatically because

• Its friction that I have to rerun a cell to get the code.
• The output of the plot_code() might not be in sync with the explorer selections if I ran that function some time ago.
• I want to be able to easily deploy an explorer Panel data app to my users such that the starting point for a visualization is just a web page that can take us a long way, then we export the code and continue if/ when needed.

[jbednar]

Another approach I've suggested is to have a button to copy the code for the current plot to the clipboard; would that be useful in your case?

[MarcSkovMadsen]

That would also be great and solve my use cases, if it was part of the explorer.

[maximlt]

Yes adding a button is a good idea (a button to save the plot as a file too, I think that was the original suggestion).

[philippjfr]

Right, an export tab would be nice with options to export to file and to clipboard.