In v10.5b1 there was a specific feature added: “when creating shortcut to scripts, optional data can now be passed as argument” that has gone unnoticed, and it’s more powerful than it seems. (Mainly because I think almost nobody used it in their scripts)

With this, a script can have custom parameter per item that don’t need to be stored in a tag, or included in the code as config.

However, now that I discovered it and I want to use this feature, it is still hard to use: you can only use it from ‘launch a shortcut, lightning, run script’, if you use the normal ‘run script’ that dialog is not showed [Even thought it is possible: you can set it as a custom EventHandler from a script]

There is another old suggestion: when choosing a script to run, show only the list of scripts, not the whole script editor.

So, Pierre Hébert, my suggestion is:

How difficult will be to have a custom dialog with:

Title: “Choose a script”

Drop down list with the list of scripts (the same one as in the script editor)

The ‘extra data passed, leave blank if not used’ text

A text box where to add the extra data

(Optionally: a checkbox to show/hide that two last items)

A cancel button and a accept button.

This will improve the mentioned feature, and people will understand better how to choose a script (pressing back to accept is, sorry, not obvious :/ )

Note: I know you said you will be busy, but I hope you can add this to the to-do list 🙂 (and I hope this is easy enough to do it at once, but I don’t know)

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