Specifying action summary text

[Perry The Cynic]

When I edit an Action Group in "Show All" view, each action is represented by a single line of text. That's pretty concise, but for plugin actions all it shows is the name of the action - no arguments, and no indication of which plugin this is for. Is there a way for a plugin to specify this description? For example, instead of send text, show send text "IRCODE PAUSE"?

This also applies to editing individual actions, where the space below the "Edit Action Settings..." button just repeats the name of the action, without any disclosure of what those settings currently are.

Cheers
-- perry

[matt (support)]

Try the following:

1) Add a new textfield to your action ConfigUI XML with the id "description" and set hidden attribute to true.

2) Inside your validateActionConfigUi() callback set the "description" property to the caption text you want to display:

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valuesDict[u"description"] = u"send IR command to device foovious"

Note I'm not thrilled about the technique above and I've seen a few cases where the label doesn't get updated/shown. But it is the best approach we currently have, and we use it in some of our plugins.

[Perry The Cynic]

Will do. I'm already abusing the "address" property similarly to show a nice readable address in the device list, so I suppose I shouldn't be squeamish now.

Cheers
-- perry