How to create views in Ignition through excel

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Hello All,

Want to create the views from excel.

So, Anyone knows about how to define excel structure which help to automatically create views?

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  • Create a view in Designer.
  • In Project Browser, shift-right-click on the view and select Copy JSON.
  • Paste it into a text editor.
  • Think: "Do I really want to try to generate this from Excel?"
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If you’re trying to do something programmatically scripting might be a better approach. However, if something is reusable or general enough to be programmed you can probably just make a template one time.

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I think there's a place for view generation in excel, although more so components of a view like the creation of embedded views json. I have a tool for doing this myself to place pnid devices on views

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Can you elaborate it?

because , I have no idea about it how to configure it. I show the views folder in particular project directory there is three different files.

  1. Resources Json file
  2. View Json file
  3. view image (Thumbnail)
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I create the json for the view components and paste the into the View within the designer. I don't edit the view's json resource directly

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Can you tell me for how to configure it?
What is standard excel structure?