Layers panel with toggle to hide layer but keep effect

@Todd_Morgan 

Although keyboard shortcuts or actions can do this, I decided to create a script as that can contain extended conditional logic (as opposed to the limited logic available to conditional actions). A custom keyboard shortcut can be assigned to scripts installed in the Preset/Scripts directory, or you could record the script execution into an action and use an action F-Key shortcut:

• Check for an active layer
• Check that the active layer is not the Background layer
• Check if the active layer has a layer style
• Check the current fill opacity is either 100% or 0%
• Toggle the fill opacity as above

/*
Toggle Layer Fill Opacity.jsx
Stephen Marsh
v1.0 - 1st February 2025
https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/layers-panel-with-toggle-to-hide-layer-but-keep-effect/td-p/15119972
*/

#target photoshop

// Ensure a document is open
if (app.documents.length > 0) {
    var doc = app.activeDocument;

    // Check if the active layer is the background layer
    if (!doc.activeLayer.isBackgroundLayer) {
        var layer = doc.activeLayer;

        // Check for an active layer by jazz-y
        s2t = stringIDToTypeID;
        (r = new ActionReference()).putProperty(s2t('property'), p = s2t('targetLayers'));
        r.putEnumerated(s2t("document"), s2t("ordinal"), s2t("targetEnum"));
        if (executeActionGet(r).getList(p).count) {

            // Check if the layer has a style
            var hasLayerStyle = false;
            try {
                var styleReference = new ActionReference();
                styleReference.putProperty(s2t('property'), s2t('layerEffects'));
                styleReference.putEnumerated(s2t('layer'), s2t('ordinal'), s2t('targetEnum'));
                var styleDescriptor = executeActionGet(styleReference);
                if (styleDescriptor.hasKey(s2t('layerEffects'))) {
                    hasLayerStyle = true;
                }
            } catch (e) { }

            // Check the current fill opacity if the layer has a style
            if (hasLayerStyle) {
                var currentFillOpacity = layer.fillOpacity;

                // Toggle the fill opacity
                if (currentFillOpacity == 100) {
                    layer.fillOpacity = 0;
                } else if (currentFillOpacity == 0) {
                    layer.fillOpacity = 100;
                } else {
                    //alert("The fill opacity is neither 0% nor 100%! Current fill opacity: " + currentFillOpacity + "%");
                }
            } else {
                //alert("The layer does not have a style!");
            }
        }
    } else {
        //alert("The active layer is the Background layer!");
    }
} else {
    alert("No document is open!");
}

1. Copy the code text to the clipboard
2. Open a new blank file in a plain-text editor (not in a word processor)
3. Paste the code in
4. Save as a plain text format file – .txt
5. Rename the saved file extension from .txt to .jsx
6. Install or browse to the .jsx file to run (see below)

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html

The shortcut can be tricky, alternatively just turn 'Fill Opacity' to 0%

Dave

Doesn't work

Hit shift-0 twice in rapid succession. .