Best practice to add and develop plugins

Questions
#1

I am new in HR and want to play a little bit with plugins (=scripts?).

I understand the structure of a plugin and I’ve learned that I can create a device by clicking “Device -> Add Plugin -> Import from file”
. Now a device is created and in the script folder my source code is shown.

What is the best practice when I want to modify my code? Delete my device and plugin and reload it again?

#2

The file in the Scripts folder is editable. You do not have to delete it & reimport. It’ll be easier to just edit the existing file.

#3

Hi Bill. Thank you for the answer. I already saw that is editable. But how do I then “execute” the plugin e.g. if I have added some additional attriebutes. By clicking “sychronize devices”?
In my case if modified the function onConnect():

{
var device = plugin.Devices[“1”];
device.Var1=1;
device.Var2=299;
device.Var3=1;
device.Var4=1;
console.log(“connected”);

}

by adding Var4, but I did no see any changes…

#4

Yes, “Synchronize Devices” will add them. Or you can manually add them to the Attributes in the Properties pane.

#5

now it is working! Thank you for your support!