Function when UI form is loading?

I seem to remember reading on the forums a method/function that would fire when a form was loading before the user actually saw it that would allow the plugin to fill in some fields, am I on crack? I need to populate custom menu fields that just show up as blank because it's not a pre-defined static list (defaultValue doesn't work on my custom fields).

https://forums.indigodomo.com/viewtopic.php?p=103233#p103233

Yea, that's what I was trying to remember was that thread, but that's only for a menu item and not for a device.

Are you talking about getDeviceConfigUiValues()?


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Are you talking about getDeviceConfigUiValues()?


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Maybe, I'm not sure. I can't find that one in the API docs.

I don't think it's in the docs.

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getDeviceConfigUiValues(self, valuesDict, typeId, devId)

Multitool Plugin Method Signature Tool:

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   Multitool                       self.getDeviceConfigUiValues: ArgSpec(args=['self', 'pluginProps', 'typeId', 'devId'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=None)
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Are you talking about getDeviceConfigUiValues()?


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Maybe, I'm not sure. I can't find that one in the API docs.

That's the one. You mentioned Menus which is why I gave you the link I did.

Take a look at the Plugin Developer Documenter Plugin - an excellent piece of documentation from @RogueProeliator.

I don't think it's in the docs.

Oh, well that is an excellent way to use the API, word of mouth...

Thanks for the unveiling of the super secret method!

That's the one. You mentioned Menus which is why I gave you the link I did.

I see that, I think my mind was focused on wanting to get a device config version of the menu function I had seen somewhere on the forums.

Take a look at the Plugin Developer Documenter Plugin - an excellent piece of documentation from @RogueProeliator.

That looks interesting, I'l. check it out.

Love this command. I've worked around not having this for years and a good number of my plugins had to do some pretty crazy stuff to get "pre-calculations" done, like hiding the entire form until they checked a box that then had a callback that then did the calculation that then enabled the fields.

In standard Indigo API fashion I see this is across all config UI's with a simple name change - also making my Actions much easier to default now too!

Thank you for the enlightenment!

For the future, here's an example:

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    def getDeviceConfigUiValues(self, valuesDict, typeId, devId):

        if typeId == 'someTypeId' and 'devicePropertyName' not in valuesDict.keys():
            valuesDict['devicePropertyName'] = "defaultValue"

        return valuesDict



Yup, I figured that out as it was the reason I needed the method.

That wasn't for you, my brother--that was for the next guy.