Hi, I have a dock that usually hides (display = onDemand), and want to programmatically change it to visible under certain conditions. The docs are in conflict with the GUI, where the display options relate to the content options. See below: display: The display state of the dock. Accepted valu…

Hi, Whilst I do agree this is weird, especially on the different options for display, why don’t you simply use system.perspective.closeDock and system.perspective.openDock ? system.perspective.toggleDock also exists in case you do not keep track of the state of the dock. Unless obviously you want…

I don’t simply want to open it. I want to ensure it remains open until auto is an option again. Closing and opening is not a suitable option.

The options for display are the push/cover/auto. Unless it's missing from the documentation I don't know if you can change ondemand to visible during runtime. system.perspective.alterDock | Ignition User Manual Changes configuration of a specified dock on a Perspective page. …

That was my point. GUI options for display are visible/onDemand/auto. Docs function options for display are push/cover/auto. GUI options for content are push/cover/auto. It is entire omitted/conflated with display in the docs. Is it possible to alter the display visible/onDemand/auto options prog…

I solved it like this: if not currentValue.value: #Permanently show the dock config = {"display":"visible","handle":"hide"} system.perspective.alterDock( dockId = dockId, \ config = config,\ pageId = pageId) system.perspective.openDock(id = dockId) else: #H…

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Bushmatic March 25, 2026, 3:35pm 7

I noticed yesterday myself that the documentation for system.perspective.alterDock is wrong for the display settings. I was making a lock/unlock feature for a dock with similar logic to @deon.korb’s script. See the end of this post:

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