[BUG] Template Repeater templateParams cleared via script doesn't repaint component

v7.9.12

I have a popup with a template repeater component whose templateParams dataset is configured by a script that runs on the rootContainer ‘componentRunning’. Basically it populates the templateParams with a list based on the tags (“unit parameters”, UPs) in the tag browser for that particular device. However, if a device has no configured engineering parameter tags, the templateParams dataset will contain the columns but no rows. This is fine in the designer and the template repeater shows no rows, but in the runtime, it shows the rows (unit parameters) from the last opened device that has UPs.

I have run a print statement to check what the dataset contains, and it’s correctly showing that it has 0 rows. A workaround is to refresh the component’s dataset with system.db.refresh(...), but this should be unnecessary.

UPs on the right, this device HAS UPs:
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This device doesn’t have any, but the UPs from the previous device are shown:
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the templateParams dataset reported by a print statement is: Dataset [0R ? 4C]

Note: 03 has Unit Parameter tags, 08 doesn’t.
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Can you post your componentRunning code?

Most of the code is within a script library, but here are the elements. Note: the popup Window has a custom property defined called ‘UnitParamsDS’ which is a dataset. This is bound to the template repeater’s templateParams dataset.

Window, rootContainer on propertyChange event:

if event.propertyName == 'componentRunning':
	unitPath = event.source.UnitTagPath
	windowRootContainer = event.source
	shared.units.general.initUnitDSs(unitPath, windowRootContainer)

Script library, shared.units.general. The reason there is a wrapper function is some of my other popups have more than one dataset to initialise, so these each have separate functions that are called from the wrapper. It made sense to keep the same structure for this one as well:

### Library Revision: 1.1		Increment with any change to the functions within

def initUnitDSs(unitPath, windowRootContainer):
	'''
	Description:
	Initialises the datasets required for a unit popup (Popups/ppuUnit) to display the unit parameters.
	
	Requirements:
	This function writes into custom dataset parameters defined in the Unit popup's root window container. These must exist:
	- rootContainer.UnitParamsDS
	
	IMPORTANT NOTE:
	After executing this function, make sure to perform a refresh on the UP template repeaters's templateParams dataset! Otherwise, if this returns an empty dataset, the component will
	display the UPs from the previously opened device. 
	'''
	
	#Read the configured unit parameters from the unit tags and write them into a dataset to use with the unit params template repeater
	ds = getUnitParamsDS(unitPath)
	windowRootContainer.UnitParamsDS = ds


####
#### Helper functions
####

def getUnitParamsDS(unitPath):
	'''
	Description:
	Returns a dataset with the Unit Parameter details of a Unit so that these can be displayed in a template repeater using the template: [shared]Units/Unit Param
	
	Requirements:
	Expects the unit parameter tags to use the standard unit definition. This means that the unit path has at least this unit parameter tag structure:
		Unit Parameters/<Tag Name> [OPC], where <Tag Name> is the descriptive name of the unit parameter that reads its value from the PLC. 
	'''
	#retrieve a list of all of the step tags for the sequence. This returns a list of BrowseTag objects.
	#print 'Unit path: ', unitPath 
	unitParamTags = system.tag.browseTagsSimple(unitPath + '/Unit Parameters', 'ASC')
	
	#we want to display the eng parameters in the correct order, based on the PLC tag name (EP01-xx), so we read the OPCItemPath of the tags
	unitParamOPCItemPathTags = [tag.path + '.OPCItemPath' for tag in unitParamTags]
	unitParamOPCItemPaths = system.tag.readAll(unitParamOPCItemPathTags)
	unitParamOPCItemPaths = [tag.value for tag in unitParamOPCItemPaths] #store just the value of the browseTag object. This is the opc item path string.
	
	#produce a list of the tag names. we don't need the path as we have the sequencePath already and assume that these tags are in: <sequencePath>/Engineering Parameters/<tag.name>
	unitParamTags = [tag.name for tag in unitParamTags]
	
	#combine the OPCItemPaths with side-by-side with the tag names into a combined list.
	unitParamTags = zip(unitParamTags, unitParamOPCItemPaths)
	
	#create the dataset column names. We exclude the BGColour first as we need to sort the dataset by the OPCItemPath first before setting these.
	dshdr = ['TagName', 'UnitTagPath', 'OPCItemPath']
	dsdata = []
	
	for unitParamTag in unitParamTags:
		#append the current eng param details to the dataset
		#print '   Adding tag: ',unitParamTag[0] 
		dsdata.append([unitParamTag[0], unitPath, unitParamTag[1]])
		
	ds = system.dataset.toDataSet(dshdr,dsdata)
	ds = system.dataset.sort(ds, 'OPCItemPath', 1)
	ds = system.dataset.toPyDataSet(ds)
	
	dsList = []
	BGColour = 0
	for row in ds:
		dsList.append([row[0], row[1], row[2], BGColour])
		BGColour = not BGColour
	
	if len(dsList) == 0:
		dsList 
	
	dshdr = ['TagName', 'UnitTagPath', 'OPCItemPath', 'BGColour']
	ds = system.dataset.toDataSet(dshdr, dsList)
	
	return ds