Remove Layers from Layer Expression control effect?

[tristansummers]

HI

I am buiilding a control to switch languages on multiple elements.

I am using a Layer control to change a TSV source

This is great.

I would just like to hide the other layers from the drop down menu in Layer control effect, so you only have the options you need.

Is this possible?

Otherwise i will need a way of sdelecting from a precomp that just has those layers in, but I don't think layer control can jump across comps...

I want a one button option for reversioning basically and this is an interesting way to do it

Any ideas?

[Szalam]

You could make a slider that picks between the languages. 1 = English, 2 = Spanish, etc.

Downside to that is you'd have to remember which number is which.

Except that this would be a great chance to use Master Properties! You'll never need to touch that language control option again once this is set up! And you could queue and render any/all languages at once!

You would put the language slider control in the EGP, then you could nest that comp in as many comps as you need (one for each language - ideally naming the comp CompNameLANGUAGE or something), and use the slider control to select the correct language for each comp. Then, you make whatever changes you need in the one master comp and then those changes will ripple up to all of the language-specific comps. You could then just send all your comps to the render queue at once!

Edit: Master Properties are seriously powerful. Find some tutorials on them, if you haven't already. Here's the help page on them: Create Motion Graphics templates with Essential Graphics panel

[tristansummers]

if only layer controls were actually usable as master properties!

The layer control enables picking the TSV but leaving the other parts of the data selection working

It means you can test your one design in different languages as you go.

Can't think of another way to quickly chswap out the data source, other than alt dragging, which is a bit clunky