Content Presenter flexibility

Hello,

Is there a way to change the behavior of the content presenter?

Here's what we are trying to achieve:

We have symbols linked to objects that display temporization parameters. Our customer wants a dashboard showing all temporization symbols for the deployed objects only.

However, the ViewApp navigation doesn't show these objects when "include children" is selected. The ViewApp navigation stops at the area level.

In the ViewApp navigation, we added a specific navigation node for the content presenter. However, it never shows the temporization symbols even if they are correctly set (content in the symbol and content presenter searching for this specific content).

We want the content presenter to search in the model view, not in the ViewApp navigation.

Is this possible? Adding the "_" in front of the alias name seems to stop the content presenter even if we selected "include children" from the area.

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  • Yeah i have the license, i'll set it up tomorrow and send you screenshots

  • Thank you Rainer for the help.

    For those interested the workaround was the following :

    - create new navigation node called as example « not used » in the view app

    - include all children 

    - point the content presenter from your normal navigation to the new navigation node 

    - set the access level so that only maintenance can see the not used navigation.

    However it would be smart to enhance this behavior. I think if the only way for the content presenter app is to read the viewapp navigation and not the model view we should have a « hide from runtime » button in the viewapp editor. It’s not super solution to expose the not used node. It’s a limitation in the contentpresenter utilization. 
    We should be able to read any graphics from the children somehow without exposing them in runtime navigation. I never seen a omi app with all children (only in the mixer application from the SP training).

    Perhaps Ernst can give some feedback on that ?