Hi everyone, I'm trying to implement a feature that needs to go through view's items and with each item, I need to go through its props. Initially, I thoguht I could be able to handle it with a OnStartUp Event, and use a script for it, using something like: aux_list = [] for item in view: try:…

Yes, I thought it was already discussed above. https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/system.perspective.getProjectInfo One of the keys is views.

This may be helpful [image] Iterate through all components programatically in Perspective? Ignition I was wondering if there's a way to iterate through all components on screen for a perspective view? I was trying to use getRootContainer and getChildren but i…

Very helpful, but I didn't find a way to access the items of another view, just using the self.view.rootContainer.children, but I want to pass the view path and go through its items instead, not just the self view.

You would have to obtain a reference to the actual view instance. There's no exposed way to do that for any arbitrary view path. From a live session object, you have a getPages() method, and each Page has a getViews() method.

[image] Now I want to create a dropdown list, and its options would be a list of all views on SubSystems. I know I could just put manually as a parameter on MainView, but this functionality of going throught the views would optmize the maintence and future upgrades.

Was there a question in there? :slight_smile:

Of course, I want to see if its possible to make a list of views as we have in Vision with system.gui.getWindowNames()

[image] Roberto_Luis: I know I could just put manually as a parameter on MainView, but this functionality of going throught the views would optmize the maintence and future upgrades. I'd argue that simple manually configured options/buttons make maintenance/upgrades easier than complicated sc…

Is root iterable?

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bkarabinchak.psi April 28, 2023, 3:48pm 2

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