Perspective - Scripting - Manage project properties

[luc.martin]

Is there a way to be able to manage projects properties by scripting?

Also, is there a way to force gateway to update projects list from the local data projects folder ? I would like to be able to copy project folder for versioning and I want the gateway update their projects list since new folder appear in the local data projects folder.

[pturmel]

@luc.martin

I want the gateway update their projects list

The gateway checks its folders every five minutes. IIRC, that is configurable in recent versions.

[luc.martin]

@pturmel

IIRC, that is configurable in recent versions

I'm on 8.1.22, but don't find where to configure

[PGriffith]

Project Scan Frequency Setting

There’s no concept of ‘scan frequency’ in 7.9, because the only ‘source of truth’ for project resources is the gateway’s internal DB. In 8.0, when resources moved to the filesystem, we put a system in place to watch the filesystem for changes to resources; if an external change is made, it’ll be detected and override the configuration the gateway has in memory. However, the scan frequency was fairly aggressive and could, on systems with many projects, consume a significant chunk of CPU. As a r…

[PGriffith]

In an upcoming release, you'll be able to call system.project.scan() to trigger a demand poll.

[luc.martin]

@luc.martin

Is there a way to be able to manage projects properties by scripting?

What about => Is there a way to be able to manage projects properties by scripting?

[PGriffith]

Not in any supported way.

If you're sufficiently motivated, other avenues are possible: Ignition Extensions - Convenience utilities for advanced users

[PGriffith]

[IGN-1655]Force to reload the file page-config/config.json after editing it from disk

May's still 'early', right? 8.1.28 will add the system.project.scan method noted above, in the gateway scope. There's also an SDK-accessible requestScan method that returns a CompletableFuture on ProjectManagerBase if you want to do anything interesting from a custom module.