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After Effects UPDATED Menu Command-ID List

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October 3, 2020
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For uses of scripting , both David Torno & AE-Enhancers community had the time and efford to publish these on their own, for helping users into their ExtendScript scripts coding and tool development.

But unfortunately many of the commands are still unkown and these lists are not updated since AE (12.2.1x5).

Does Adobe has an official guide / PDF or public acess to give users support into acessing all these commands to improve AE? Or even plans to publish one in the near future?

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Correct answer shachar carmi

find any command id by name like so:
id = app.findMenuCommandId("copy");

command numbers change from time to time, so it might be good practice to aquire dynamically.

more info on the subject:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects/i-need-your-help-to-get-a-specific-menu-command-id-in-various-ae-versions/td-p/8702554?page=1

Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew

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Updated the seachable Command ID list for AE 2022:

https://hyperbrew.co/blog/after-effects-command-ids/

Nuno CarocoAuthor

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Thanks Justin 🙂
Wow! Thats a great help. Both your repository and hyperbrew site are incrible useful.
Unfortunately there is still no command-list or even keyboard shortcut for the option/command i was talking about. The "Close Other Panels in Group" or "Close Other Timeline Panels".
Maybe in AE CC2032, since maybe im the only dude that find this useful!

Cheers and thanks once again to all that responded into my issue.

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Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew

Community Expert

Sure thing! Will be posting more scripting resources on there soon.

And that's too bad there's no existing command ID for "Close Other Panels in Group" or "Close Other Timeline Panels". Hopefully it will be added soon 🤞.

Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew

Community Expert

I updated this one fairly recently in case you haven't seen it:

https://bitbucket.org/justin2taylor/workspace/snippets/aLjjBE

And no, there's no offical list but you can find commands as Shachar mentioned with app.findMenuCommandId().

Nuno CarocoAuthor

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Shachar, Nathan, thanks both for your quick and response and precisous help.

Nathan, its a small world, since i follow your youtube channel, and a few days ago you posted a nice 3 code script that ALMOST 🙂 does what i wanted.

These command ID´s and names from what i understand, only work,, well... for AE menu commands. To be specific, what im looking is a "sub command" not existent in the main menu. In this case "Close Other Panels in Group" or "Close Other Panels in Timeline" - These both in the timeline panel options . or "Close Other Comp Views" in the drop down of the composition panel

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shachar carmi

Correct answer

Community Expert

find any command id by name like so:
id = app.findMenuCommandId("copy");

command numbers change from time to time, so it might be good practice to aquire dynamically.

more info on the subject:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects/i-need-your-help-to-get-a-specific-menu-command-id-in-various-ae-versions/td-p/8702554?page=1

Nathan Lovell_52

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Yeah I would also recommend not learning the commands by the numbers, as it can change over different AE versions. My preferences is to use this version independent way:

app.executeCommand(app.findMenuCommandId("Close Project"));

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