Slider in template on popup

Ignition
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I have a template that I’m using on a popup that has a slider in it. The template has a custom property that I’m using to drive to slider, and that custom property is being referenced on the popup as an indirect.

The issue I’m having is when I use the slider it properly updates the PLC through the tags. However, if I close the popup and then re-open it the slider shows the LAST value, not the current value. If I put multiple instances of the slider in the template, the slider that I don’t interact with shows the proper value, however the one that I used to change the value initially updates but when the popup is closed and re-opened the slider doesn’t show the current value.

For instance: I open the popup and the slider is currently at 25. I change it to 75. PLC gets a value of 75 and the slider shows a value of 75. I close the popup and re-open the popup and the slider is now showing 25 but the value in the PLC is 75.

Any ideas?

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What version of Ignition is this? This sounds like an issue that was present in 7.9.7 but will be fixed in 7.9.9.

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Version 7.9.8

Are there any known workarounds?

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Its not ideal but perhaps you can use the componentRunning property in the template itself and when it changes to true, check those sliders and update them if necessary.

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I’ve found that if I pass in a string to the template and then use indirect tags on the slider it updates properly. so for now I have a work around, it will just require me to make sure that everywhere I want to use that template that I’ve got those same tags. Not an issue just not what I was trying to do lol. It is strange though that it didn’t seem to want to work with custom properties.

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If you set the 'Cache Policy' of the relevant window to 'Never', the bindings won't be cached so they will evaluate correctly each time the window opens.