Edit text in VSW Text components

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Emil Solbakken

May 18, 2022 13:18

Ability to set/edit text in VSW Text components from workflows, to display dynamic content in static text panels in the VSW viewer.

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  Ken Lyon

  December 23, 2022 18:23

  Hi Emil Solbakken. I'm interested to hear more about this idea. It sounds to me like showing a Workflow Form in the panel would achieve what you want. Why do you want to target specific Text components?

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  Emil Solbakken

  January 05, 2023 13:42

  Hi Ken,

  The idea came up as we wanted a permanent panel showing a date (used in layer definition expressions) that can be changed by the user. In the end we achieved this by displaying a form in a workflow-panel, like you suggest, with the date stored as application data.

  A downside with the current solution is that the workflow with the display form has to rerun every time the date is changed, making the text completely disappear for a moment. Small issue, but it would look better if just the text itself could be updated.

  Unless there is a way to externally trigger changes in a display form, I think the ability to target specific text components could be a nice addition.

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  Zack Robison

  March 23, 2023 07:26

  Emil Solbakken, you can target specific components in WF by binding to them using viewer.get-current-layout operation.  You'll need the layout ID of the text component to update.

  1. Run Operation: viewer.get-current-layout > named something like $layout
  2. Create Value: $layout.result.selectById('text-abcd1234') > $textComponent
  3. Set Property: $textComponent.result.model.text, 'Some Text'

  So you would run this in a workflow tied to whatever your date picker is, the text will never disappear but just update instead.

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