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I have a project which I am controlling entirely via a Dashboard interface I have created. Of the multiple lower thirds in the XP project that have Datalinq connections to xml files, one of those files is regularly updated to reflect the currently active speaker, however, sometimes the changes are done in error. To prevent that, I would like to implement what would effectively be a data listen toggle. This would allow the operator to 'disable' real time changes during a long speech for example. As the speak wrapped up, they would re-enable the listener.

Is there a way to enable / disable datalinq on a scene via a script, or rosstalk command? Failing that, is there a set of commands to allow me to copy the datalinked scene to a new scene, and convert the links to static text?

Any help would be appreciated here.

Hi Dave - no this isn't possible. 

It is on the roadmap, but has no timeline. 

Thanks Garner - I had pretty much come to that conclusion. This is a feature we had on our previous Broadcast Pix systems, and one we had used extensively. In the interim, I think I had come up with a workaround, although it's a bit clumsy. Basically, for the two scenes that are linked to this dynamic data, I duplicated those pages, and on the duplicates, have unchecked the 'Live Update' Datalinq property for every linked item in the scene. As far as I can see, this stops the data from being updated while the scene is online. I then added a Data Listen toggle button on the form, and added logic, so depending on the state of the toggle button, the correct version of the page is displayed, and you can hot-switch between them (seamless to operator).

I haven't been able to test extensively yet with real data, but early indications are that this achieves the goal. That said, I'm looking forward to an easier implementation!

Not exactly what you're asking for, but you can also right click an item in the sequencer and choose "Change datalinqs to static text", and it will take the current datalinq values for all published fields and convert them to static text and change the text object to static.  Note, it only works on the published fields; and unpublished fields that are datalinq'd will remain datalinq'd.