Perhaps there is already a solution to this or a forum post I just didn’t see when I was searching for this, but is there a way to view the pydoc documentation of 3rd party python libraries added into Ignition the same way that 3rd party java scripting modules show up in the editor? I’d even be will…

Basically unchanged since 8.1.whatever when we added docstring parsing. It works for your project library, but not the third party library that's only accessible on disk, which is what I think the OP was talking about. There are no short term plans to do that, @Tyler_McLean . It's on a long term roa…

[image] Script Library Formatting and Documentation Ignition If you're on 8.1.19 or higher, project library scripts with "docstrings" per Python convention do show up in the autocomplete in other editors: https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Scri…

Thanks for the answer Paul. It is as I expected then. All good! I’ll just create the documentation separately then and patiently await the day an external editor like PyCharm works with the designer

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lrose September 29, 2025, 8:08pm 2

@paul-griffith may have a different answer, but as far as I know it should work so long as you follow the convention.