I thought I’d create a wiki topic to post useful JS “hacks”. It’d be good to include methods using the Markdown component as well as Ben Musson’s Periscope module’s system.perspective.runJavaScript* methods, but either or is ok initially and others can update your wiki reply later. What I had in mi…

This is a template you can copy for new posts. Feel free to improve it… Feature Title This is a description of the feature. This is a screenshot of what the feature does. Instructions Copy and paste into a View... Resources ▶ Markdown Version ▶ Periscope Version (N/A yet)

Power Chart - Set X-Trace tag labels to their pen colour This will set the tag labels and values shown in all x-trace panels to the colour of their chart pens. The script (dodgilly?) grabs the colours from the legend key at the bottom. I haven’t tested if this works when the legend is collapsed int…

Accordian - Allow smooth scrolling to items based on item index This allows you to scroll an Accordian component to show a specific item, given an item index and the Accordian’s domId. Instructions Copy the JSON below and paste it into your View with the Accordian. To your accordian comp…

I thought I would add this despite it not being an injection since it can be helpful even when trying to inspect data through window.__client.page.views._data (although you can change this path in the code if needed). This utility attempts to find the shortest path, within a fixed time limit (curre…

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up. The JavaScript execution technique being shared here is considered an exploit. The Markdown component was not intended to execute arbitrary JavaScript, and we're treating this as a security concern. We'll be addressing this in a future release. In the meant…

The tooltip when you hover escapeHTML does say use at your own risk, but I suppose a warning here probably is a good idea as I doubt many people read the tooltip. So, does that mean that there are plans to patch/remove the escapeHTML feature? If this is getting patched, is there an official feature…

[image] travisaggiebrown: is there an official feature in the works that will let us run JavaScript on perspective pages Not an answer to your question, but, there is this: [image] Musson Industrial's Embr-Periscope Module 3rd Party Modules Embr-Perisco…

yeah, modules are great, but my company doesn't like opensource stuff due to there not being a LTSA. it just seems crazy to me that the JS injections have been talked about for at least three years on this forum, yet we are no closer to an official solution.

[image] travisaggiebrown: LTSA Hit us up? We'll sell you a reasonable support agreement for the right price. [image] Musson Industrial Musson Industrial is an instrumentation and process controls company that has been serving the greater midwest for over 30 years. …

if they remove the ability to do JavaScript injection, then I'll probably reach out but for now I will be an "exploiter" for as long as I'm allowed.

JS Injection Hack Usefuls (JavaScript)

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paul-griffith April 17, 2026, 11:05pm 16