# Function to set component property

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/function-to-set-component-property/15074>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 15, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/function-to-set-component-property/15074 "2017-08-15T19:51:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![nmudge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nmudge/32/3394_2.png) [@nmudge](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nmudge)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/function-to-set-component-property/15074/2 "2017-08-15T20:48:00Z")

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This works:

```auto
def setPropertyValue(component,propertyName,value):
	method = getattr(component,"set%s"% propertyName.title())	
 	method(value)

```

In this function we get the set method of the property and then call it to set the value.

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