@BusterCherry Apologies for the late reply on this. We don’t have this feature currently implemented, but we do intend implement a similar design that you’ve proposed. The Templater Settings effect should have an additional parameter that is perhaps labeled something such as “Fallback Target Layer”. This param would essentially allow a user to specify different ways to “search” for a layer target if the one selected is not enabled / visible. We have this in our queue for feature improvements and your post validates our need to have this in there. In the meantime, you might be able to use an “invisible” video of varying lengths that can act as a proxy to what you want (i.e. a layer shifting in the timeline a certain amount of seconds / frames depending on your re-versioning data). Please let us know if this helps or if we can provide more clarification. Many thanks again for your patience! Best, Arie

Hi there! Yes we have confirmed this as a bug manifested in the 2.7.0 release. It comes up when you invoke the “Preview” task, but have no specified target composition. We have implemented a fix, but for now, the workaround is to be sure you’ve specified a target composition in any of the three methods. Please read this knowledge base article about specifying a target composition with Templater. Thanks, Arie

Sorry you’re having that issue. We’re working hard to get the docs and GitHub repo updated to reflect all of the new features of 2.7. We’re hoping to have those up in the next few days. In the meantime, we added a new setting to the Templater Preferences. Can I have you try adding this line into the prefs object of your templater-options.json: "supress_ae_dialogs" : true We’re going to be issuing an update soon, so for 2.7.1 that option will no longer be required. Also, if you are launching the Bot with the CLI, make sure that you use a -ui argument in your shell script.

@gjkoble Yes this is absolutely possible by enabling Bot. The trial actually gives you all features from all editions of Templater. So, technically, you could not acheive what you are asking with Templater Rig, you would need Templater Bot. However, since you are still within your trial period, you could still do this. You can point to any URL that responds with JSON object arrays. Each object in the array would effectively be a new video. It’s up to you how you want to setup the server that Templater requests data from at regular intervals. You can see Bot in action by watching the following video: https://youtu.be/_BJEu7coCsI However, that video shows a Google Sheet as a Templater data source. You can do the same thing except instead of using a Google Sheet, you can use a URL feed. Learn more about using URL feeds with Templater on our support site. Note the following from that article, however: When using a URL feed, The Bot cannot update the value of the “render-status” key because the data source is specific to the user’s system. Therefore, users should register custom scripts to update “render-status” values at appropriate events to avoid re-rendering “ready” data. Hopefully this helps, and please do not hesitate to ask any more questions! Thank you for giving Templater a spin!

@rens Unfortunately AE’s API access to the character palette is extremely limited, so your best bet would be to create a pre-job script that copies your master AEP and opens the project in AE, to run Templater off of the copy instead of the master. This will leave your master always untouched. In the instance that a missing glyph breaks one project, it won’t break all of the subsequent projects. You could also try running an ExtendScript that updates the font on that layer on the post-update event every time, but I think that could be more problematic. Bot events.

@kdav82 Are you using a local JSON file, or a JSON feed/URL? If you’re using a JSON feed, have you registered a script with the post-output or post-job event in Templater’s Preferences, and if you have, what is the script/incantation that you’re using? When you are using the CLI, are you launching the Bot, or are you launching a batch render job? If you’re using a render job, it will ignore the render-status. The downside of using the CLI to run the Bot is that it won’t ever spin down-- the process needs to be ended manually, where a batch render job can close on completion.

@rivalpro I wrote a forum post a while back for this type of “slideshow,” with a variable number of slides. You can find it here. There is one minor tweak that you can do with this method. We’ve added comp switching via a flag in your data (wrapping the comp name in double curly braces) to the latest version of Templater, so instead of swapping with a video asset, you could swap with an empty 2-frame comp that is double the framerate of the containing comp.

@pej87 We are always happy to help. Please submit a ticket to support@dataclay.com for more information. Thanks!

@rivalpro Yes, you can pull in the value as a text layer, then use an expression to tie your shape size / percent completion to the SourceText property of the text layer by wrapping it in a parseInt(). If your text layer is “text-1”, and your text layer is in the same comp as whatever numerical value you are using to control your bar, the expression would be: parseInt(thisComp.layer("text-1").text.sourceText) That would convert your text value from being just a text string into a number.