Set metadata from .items

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[OH3] Add metadata to Items via configuration files

Foreword In the UI you can easily add metadata to Items. [add_metadata2] This post is my notes on adding the same metadata in existing *.items files in order for the UI to do its magic. State Description Via the UI, the following options are available: [image] To populate these fields via configuration files (example values): Number nTest "Test Number Item" { stateDescription=""[ pattern="%d%%", min="0", max="100", step="1", options="1=Red, 2=Green, 3=Blue" ] } [image] The…

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[OH3] Add metadata to Items via configuration files

I’m afraid it’s not possible. While metadata config values may be objects with nested properties, the grammar used to parse .items files doesn’t support it. For those cases you would have to use the UI. (the metadata is decoupled from the item itself so you can have the item in a file and the metadata for a certain namespace in the JSONDB as long as it’s not conflicting). For this UI widgets-related metadata it’s not that far fetched to want to use the UI since you’ll get a live WYSIWYG previ…