Event.source.parent.path String not Working in 8.0

Ignition
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Hello,

I’ve migrated a project from 7.9 to 8.0 for testing purposes. A template with a string “Path” property included this script in 7.9 that worked as intended as the UDT had a string property called “ControlScreen” containing the window path. A tag of the same name within the UDT points to this property.

window = system.tag.read(event.source.parent.Path + '/ControlScreen')
system.nav.swapTo(window.value)

Since system.tag.read does not exist in 8.0, I tried using readBlocking as below:

window = system.tag.readBlocking([event.source.parent.Path + '/ControlScreen'])
system.nav.swapTo(window[0].value)

And I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<event:mousePressed>", line 14, in <module>
ValueError: Window {ControlScreen} does not exist.

I also tried readAsync as below but ended up with the same error as above:

def callback(result):
	system.nav.swapTo(result[0].value)
	
tagPath = []
window = event.source.parent.Path + '/ControlScreen'
tagPath.append(window)
system.tag.readAsync(tagPath, callback)

It seems that in 8.0 the “event.source.parent.Path” as a string returns nothing. What would be the best way to replicate the script’s actions in this new version of Ignition?

Thanks.

2

Take a look at the template master, is the internal property set to an empty string?

3

I figured it out. The expression was set to ‘{ControlScreen}’ instead of {ControlScreen}. Thanks.