Make Layer Filter (Color/Kind/Name) recordable in Actions

[Solesea_art]

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!

[Stephen Marsh]

I second the feature request idea and have voted!

[Stephen Marsh]

@Solesea_art 

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

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/only-show-color-coded-layers-script/m...

Related topics:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/select-all-layers-except-layer-groups...

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/how-to-copy-apply-a-layers-label-colo...

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/can-i-set-a-hotkey-for-color-label/td...

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/script-to-toggle-visibility-of-specif...

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/help-with-writing-a-script-to-select-...

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!");
}