I've created an ignition project that generates JSON files that can be used to create views in other ignition projects. I'm at a point where I'm happy enough with the functionality where further tweaks are low priority and it works well for my company's purposes. The workflow is a little clunky (download the JSON file, open it, select all, Ctrl+C, create a perspective view in designer, Shift+Right Click, Paste JSON), so I'm wondering if there isn't a way I can create the view directly. The view generation project and the target project can always reside on the same gateway, but ideally it would be nice if I could click a button and a view is created in the other project. It's not a show-stopper if I can't, and even if I can, I want to consider the effort it's going to take because as clunky as the procedure is, it's not too bad to document. Any advice on what I should look into?
This doesn’t answer your question, but Periscope has a JSON View component that allows you to directly render a view’s JSON structure.
The view.json structure is passed into the viewJson parameter, and it is rendered like a normal view.
There's no supported way to inject project resources via scripting, but it's possible to do anyways, because scripting.
This thread has some advice:
Though it's mostly got designer-scoped advice, which would only allow you to edit the currently open project.
I would create/update the view resources directly in the file system through gw scoped scripting. You could even build a Java (or perspective) UI to make it easier for the user and send it off to a gw message handler (for the Java version only, although I'm curious if there's another way; you won't need the msg handler through perspective as it's already gw scoped)
After adding the view(s), run system.project.requestScan to read the changes