Using script to create a template instance?

Ignition
1

Hi there,
Is there a script command to create a template instance?

I’m dealing with a project to create input boxes based on the result I query from other system.
For example, there are 4 items returned from the query and each item has different number of inputs required. Something like

item1 requires 2 input boxes
item2 requires 1 input boxes
item3 requires 10 input boxes
item4 requires 5 input boxes

My idea is to create a template with dropdown list and text input components. Each template is for each item and dropdown list will be a number of inputs required. User will be select number and enter value in the text input components then store as a dataset or dictionary type.

I want to be able to create template instance from script based on the number of items returned.

If there are any other better ways to do, please suggest.

2

The recommended approach is to use the Template Canvas or Template Repeater to dynamically create template instances. Here’s a tutorial on the Template Canvas: nickmudge.info/post/ignitions-te … at-runtime

Best,

3

Thank you Nick, stuff in your link is very helpful.

4

I would like to recreate the Template Canvas Customizer in a client window to give users the ability to build dashboards on their own without the designer.

I think I can do just about everything to populate the Templates dataset except for providing the drop-down of available templates and then expose the selected template’s parameters. I know I could build database tables pre-populated with template names and parameters but was hoping to just use whatever the customizer is using.

Thanks in advance -

5

I’m looking for this drop down as well (Here). I had a quick look in the SDK documentation without success so far…

6

You’d need to do something in addition to this for the UDT association but this will list templates from the designer. I think I got it from Nick originally but don’t see that post anymore. This is on the mousePressed event of a drop-down:

[code]def getProjectTemplates(event):
import system
comp = event.source
if system.util.getSystemFlags() & system.util.DESIGNER_FLAG:
from com.inductiveautomation.ignition.designer import IgnitionDesigner
while not isinstance(comp,IgnitionDesigner):
comp = comp.parent
context = comp.getContext()
else:
from com.inductiveautomation.factorypmi.application.runtime import ClientPanel
while not isinstance(comp,ClientPanel):
comp = comp.parent
context = comp.getClientContext()
project = context.getProject()
templates = project.getResourcesOfType(“fpmi”,“component-template”)
templatePaths = [project.getFolderPath(template.getResourceId()) for template in templates]
return templatePaths

#Get templates from Gateway
l = []
templatePaths = getProjectTemplates(event)
for path in templatePaths:
if path.startswith(“Dashboard/”):
#Use specific folder to hold all Dashboard-related templates
l.append([path])

data = system.dataset.toDataSet([“Value”], l)
event.source.data = data[/code]

7

Thank you for the reply. It helped a lot.

I’ll keep looking for the UDT association and will post here if I find something interesting.