i'd like to build a script to scrape a view for all it's components whose name matches a filter, then set a prop value for all of the resultant views. is there something like this already built in? basically something equivalent to the JS getDocumentById kind of thing. why? because i want to hav…

Is this for designer only or runtime/perspective session?

[image] Iterate through all components programatically in Perspective? Ignition We went with this one so our util library looks like def getComponents(element): def walkComponents(component): for child in component.children: yield child walkComponents…

[image] ryan.white: designer only or runtime/perspective session? designer-only session, preferably. but if not, i'm happy to hide a button with the script on it. nobody will find it.

[image] ian.sebryk: why? because i want to have a button that will toggle the visibility for EVERY DAMN THING in the view. All at once, or separately ? Does that include the button itself ? :smiley:

[image] pascal.fragnoud: All at once all at once. by way of explanation, there's a ton of UI elements that activate based on which type of asset is being managed because they all have different feature cards for the base unit. because of the spaghetti, things like CSS and scripts are per co…

Frankly, for this use case, I'd go the quick and dirty way. make a backup of the view, because things break and we don't like broken things copy the view's json (shift + right click on the view in the project browser) paste it in an editor find and replace visible: false, display: none, etc paste …

Honestly any other way of messing with the designer is gonna be a pain, because the designer is a mix of java/swing and html/react... The origin perspective view file is quite easy to edit (its just a json). but edits on the file dont really register instantly. So you would ahve to close and open t…

[image] pascal.fragnoud: find and replace visible: false, display: none, etc this won't disturb the bindings, i'm assuming? have to ask to be sure. and, yeah, backup backup backup.

[image] ian.sebryk: this won't disturb the bindings, i'm assuming? It will. Good thing you had a backup ! Find/replace won't work where there's a binding, so I guess a recursive script to parse the json, change the value, then output the modified json is in order.

dang it. then we'll have to go the JS route. can you guys point me to the correct resource?

How to scrape views for all matching components

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paul-griffith January 30, 2024, 10:28pm 3