Disable overlays globally on trial version

Ignition
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I am trying to figure out how to disable the data quality overlays on the trial version of ignition, we are receiving the overlays because we imported a real project on to my notebook and because the real data is not available I keep getting the red overlays and the warning messages. Is there a way to kind of “fake” the designer into disabling the overlays entirely? Thanks in advance

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Try playing with the (Expert) “Data Quality” property of components.

Check out overlays here:

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In the designer you can select the View -> Disable Overlays option to hid them. This doesn’t work for the clients though.

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Thanks you very much, the veiw -> disable overlays worked great!

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Is there a way to disable all data quality overlays globally for the running clients?

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Sure can, you just need to call:system.tag.setOverlaysEnabled(0)

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Hey thanks Travis, now is this script statement executed as a startup script? Can this statement be entered as is in the startup scripting or does it need to be called from the script module?

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You would want to put that in the client startup script.

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Right on, thanks Carl, I’m new to this scripting but it works great.

I assumed that I’d need to add to make it work and it did.
import system
system.tag.setOverlaysEnabled(0)

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You don’t have to import system since we do that for you already.