PAXControlCreationError

[Dog]

I'm currently trying to write my first plugin for a custom device.

When trying to edit the settings for an action, Indigo throws this message in the event log:

Error (client) dialogForActionId() caught exception: PAXControlCreationError -- Controls must have a UNIQUE id attribute.

Here is the code from my Actions.xml file:

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<Actions>
	<Action id="changeVolume" uiPath="DeviceActions">
		<Name>Audio Volume</Name>
		<CallbackMethod>setVolume</CallbackMethod>
		<ConfigUI>
		    <Field type="label">Set the volume</Field>
			<Field type="separator"/>
		    <Field id="volume" type="textfield" defaultValue="-100">
                <Label>Volume:</Label>
            </Field>
		</ConfigUI>
	</Action>
</Actions>

The error seems to claim that my action ids are not unique.

According to the notes for the id attribute of Actions.xml here: http://www.perceptiveautomation.com/wik ... ugin_guide

This is a unique id for the event in this Actions.xml file.

Parsing through my code, the only action id seems to be changeVolume.

This leaves me unsure what the problem is. Any ideas?

[matt (support)]

The error is a bit misleading here, but by Controls it means Fields. So give each Field (including label and separator) a unique id attribute and it should work.

[Dog]

Okay, so the problem with my code segment is that I needed to change

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<Field type="label">Set the volume</Field>

to

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<Field id="random" type="label">Set the volume</Field>

Thanks.

[matt (support)]

Yes. The separator field should have an id as well. It might let you get away without assigning one, but you'll get the error if you add another separator.