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Solesea_art
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October 7, 2025
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Make Layer Filter (Color/Kind/Name) recordable in Actions

  • October 7, 2025
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I frequently need to show/hide layers based on the Layer Filter. Today this workflow cannot be automated:

  • Actions do not record the Layer Filter state (Color/Kind/Name).

  • Scripting (DOM/Action Manager) does not provide a reliable way to read a layer’s label color or to set/read the Layer Filter programmatically.

    • Tried stringIDToTypeID('color'), charIDToTypeID('Clr '), and variants like layerSheetColor / sheetColor; many builds return nothing, so a script can’t detect that a layer is “Green”.


This would drastically speed large design/retouch pipelines (hundreds of layers). Typical need:

Thank you!

 

    2 replies

    Stephen Marsh
    Community Expert
    Stephen MarshCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 7, 2025

    @Solesea_art 

     

    You can use the following code to isolate by the layer color label:

     

     
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    var ref = new ActionReference();
ref.putEnumerated(charIDToTypeID("Lyr "), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt"));
var desc = executeActionGet(ref);
var theLabelColID = desc.getEnumerationValue(stringIDToTypeID('color'));

// "none", "red", "orange", "yellowColor", "grain", "blue", "violet", "gray" - New in 2024: "magenta", "seafoam", "indigo", "fuchsia"
if (theLabelColID === stringIDToTypeID("red")) {
    alert("The active layer has a red label!");
} else {
    alert("The active layer does not have a red label!");
}
    Stephen Marsh
    Community Expert
    Stephen MarshCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 7, 2025

    I second the feature request idea and have voted!

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