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Set Category with Featurescript?
EvanReese
Member, Mentor Posts: 2,932 PRO
I'm trying to change a part category via FS. Some properties (like "Not Revision Managed") don't autocomplete, but can be set anyway as a "CUSTOM" property with the property ID. I hoped to do the same thing for a Category. Here's what I'm trying, but it isn't working. Has anyone else proven whether or not this is possible?
const categoryID = "57f3fb8efa3416c06701d625";
const categorySelectionID = "6983854abad5b851116b0a88";
setProperty(context, {
"entities" : entities,
"propertyType" : PropertyType.CUSTOM,
"customPropertyId" : categoryID,
"value" : categorySelectionID
});
Best Answer
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Caden_Armstrong
Member Posts: 440 PRO
Formatting the value is very counterintuitive, you need to put the property inside of a literal array - quotes and all:
(And the forum is being weird with formatting so you get a screenshot)
This is the value that goes into set property.
If you do multiple categories, you add a comma between each and surround them with quotes.
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Formatting the value is very counterintuitive, you need to put the property inside of a literal array - quotes and all:
(And the forum is being weird with formatting so you get a screenshot)
This is the value that goes into set property.
If you do multiple categories, you add a comma between each and surround them with quotes.
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I'm trying to do the same thing, assign a category using featurescript. I get this error:
"Precondition of setProperty failed (definition.value is string)"
// trying to assign the category const categoryString = "68c877ccca741af3fb44da75"; setProperty(context, { "entities" : part, "propertyType" : PropertyType.CUSTOM, "customPropertyId": "57f3fb8efa3416c06701d625", "value" : [ "\"" ~ categoryString ~ "\"" ] });The brackets are part of the string. You need the exact format in my earlier post.
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I'm looking at a computed part property FeatureScript and I'm trying to get the category. It seemed related to this thread.
const CATEGORY_ID = "57f3fb8efa3416c06701d625"; const category = getProperty(context, { "entity" : part, "propertyType" : PropertyType.CUSTOM, "customPropertyId" : CATEGORY_ID });Where
CATEGORY_IDis the custom property "Category" id. It don't seem to work with the category selection id either. Is there anything I'm missing?Thanks, Wille