outlinerEditor

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Synopsis

outlinerEditor [-allowMultiSelection boolean] [-alwaysToggleSelect boolean] [-animLayerFilterOptions string] [-attrAlphaOrder string] [-attrFilter string] [-autoExpand boolean] [-autoExpandLayers boolean] [-autoSelectNewObjects boolean] [-containersIgnoreFilters boolean] [-control] [-defineTemplate string] [-directSelect boolean] [-displayMode string] [-doNotSelectNewObjects boolean] [-docTag string] [-dropIsParent boolean] [-editAttrName boolean] [-exists] [-expandConnections boolean] [-expandObjects boolean] [-filter string] [-forceMainConnection string] [-highlightActive boolean] [-highlightConnection string] [-highlightSecondary boolean] [-ignoreDagHierarchy boolean] [-isChildSelected name] [-lockMainConnection] [-longNames boolean] [-mainListConnection string] [-masterOutliner string] [-niceNames boolean] [-object name] [-organizeByLayer boolean] [-panel string] [-parent string] [-parentObject] [-pinPlug name] [-selectCommand script] [-selectionConnection string] [-setFilter string] [-setsIgnoreFilters boolean] [-showAnimCurvesOnly boolean] [-showAnimLayerWeight boolean] [-showAssets boolean] [-showAttrValues boolean] [-showAttributes boolean] [-showCompounds boolean] [-showConnected boolean] [-showContainedOnly boolean] [-showContainerContents boolean] [-showDagOnly boolean] [-showLeafs boolean] [-showNamespace boolean] [-showNumericAttrsOnly boolean] [-showPinIcons boolean] [-showPublishedAsConnected boolean] [-showSelected boolean] [-showSetMembers boolean] [-showShapes boolean] [-showTextureNodesOnly boolean] [-showUVAttrsOnly boolean] [-showUnitlessCurves boolean] [-showUpstreamCurves boolean] [-sortOrder string] [-stateString] [-transmitFilters boolean] [-unParent] [-unlockMainConnection] [-unpinPlug name] [-updateMainConnection] [-useTemplate string] editorName

outlinerEditor is undoable, queryable, and editable.

Return value

In query mode, return type is based on queried flag.

Flags

Long name (short name)	Argument types	Properties
-exists(-ex)
Returns true|false depending upon whether the specified object exists. Other flags are ignored.
-defineTemplate(-dt)	string
Puts a command in a mode where any other flags and args are parsed and added to the command template specified in the argument. They will be used as default arguments in any subsequent invocations of the command when templateName is set as the current template.
-useTemplate(-ut)	string
Force the command to use a command template other than the current one.
-panel(-pnl)	string
Specifies the panel that the editor belongs to. By default if an editor is created in the create callback of a scripted panel it will belong to that panel. If an editor doesn't belong to a panel it will be deleted when the window that it is in is deleted.
-parent(-p)	string
Specifies the parent layout for this editor. This flag will only have an effect if the editor is currently un-parented.
-unParent(-up)
Specifies that the editor should be removed from its layout. This cannot be used with query.
-control(-ctl)
Query only. Returns the top level control for this editor. Usually used for getting a parent to attach popup menus. Caution: It is possible, at times, for an editor to exist without a control. This flag returns "NONE" if no control is present.
-mainListConnection(-mlc)	string
Specifies the name of a selectionConnection object which the editor will use as its source of content. The editor will only display items contained in the selectionConnection object.
-forceMainConnection(-fmc)	string
Specifies the name of a selectionConnection object which the editor will use as its source of content. The editor will only display items contained in the selectionConnection object. This is a variant of the -mainListConnection flag in that it will force a change even when the connection is locked. This flag is used to reduce the overhead when using the -unlockMainConnection , -mainListConnection, -lockMainConnection flags in immediate succession.
-selectionConnection(-slc)	string
Specifies the name of a selectionConnection object which the editor will synchronize with its own selection list. As the user selects things in this editor, they will be selected in the selectionConnection object. If the object undergoes changes, the editor updates to show the change.
-highlightConnection(-hlc)	string
Specifies the name of a selectionConnection object which the editor will synchronize with its highlight list. Not all editors have a highlight list. For those that do, it is a secondary selection list.
-filter(-f)	string
Specifies the name of an itemFilter object to be placed on this editor. This filters the information coming onto the main list of the editor.
-lockMainConnection(-lck)
Locks the current list of objects within the mainConnection, so that only those objects are displayed within the editor. Further changes to the original mainConnection are ignored.
-stateString(-sts)
Query only flag. Returns the MEL command that will edit an editor to match the current editor state. The returned command string uses the string variable $editorName in place of a specific name.
-unlockMainConnection(-ulk)
Unlocks the mainConnection, effectively restoring the original mainConnection (if it is still available), and dynamic updates.
-updateMainConnection(-upd)
Causes a locked mainConnection to be updated from the orginal mainConnection, but preserves the lock state.
-docTag(-dtg)	string
Attaches a tag to the Maya editor.
-showShapes(-shp)	boolean
Specifies whether to show shapes or not.
-attrFilter(-af)	string
Specifies the name of an itemFilter object to be placed on this editor. This filters the attributes displayed in the editor.
-showAttributes(-atr)	boolean
Specifies whether to show attributes or not.
-showConnected(-con)	boolean
This flag modifies the showAttributes flag. If showAttributes is set to true then this flag will cause display of only those attributes that are connected in the dependency graph. If showAttributes is set to false then this flag does nothing.
-showAnimCurvesOnly(-aco)	boolean
This flag modifies the showConnected flag. If showConnected is set to true then this flag will cause display of only those attributes that are connected to an animCurve. If showConnected is set to false then this flag does nothing.
-showTextureNodesOnly(-tno)	boolean
This flag modifies the showConnected flag. If showConnected is set to true then this flag will cause display of only those attributes that are connected to a texture node. If showConnected is set to false then this flag does nothing.
-showDagOnly(-dag)	boolean
This flag specifies whether all dependency graph objects will be displayed, or just DAG objects.
-showAssets(-a)	boolean
This flags specifies whether assets should be shown in the outliner
-showContainerContents(-scc)	boolean
This flags specifies whether the contents of the container should be shown under the container node in the outliner
-showContainedOnly(-sco)	boolean
This flags specifies whether nodes belonging to containers should be show under the container node only. Otherwise, it will show up under the world as well.
-showPublishedAsConnected( -spc)	boolean
This flags enables attributes that are published to be displayed in italics; otherwise, only attributes connected as a destination are shown in italics.
-ignoreDagHierarchy(-hir)	boolean
This flag specifies whether or not DAG objects are displayed in their DAG hierarchy. Warning: using this flag without some other form of sensible filtering will lead to a very confusing outliner.
-autoExpand(-xpd)	boolean
This flag specifies whether or not objects that are loaded in should have their attributes automatically expanded
-expandConnections(-xc)	boolean
This flag specifies whether or not attributes should be expanded to show their input connections Note: currently the expansion will only show animCurves
-showUpstreamCurves(-suc)	boolean
Specifies exactly which attributes are displayed when showAttributes and expandConnections are both true. If true, the dependency graph is searched upstream for all curves that drive the selected plugs (showing multiple curves for example in a typical driven key setup, where first the driven key curve is encountered, followed by the actual animation curve that drives the source object). If false, only the first curves encountered will be shown. Note that, even if false, multiple curves can be shown if e.g. a blendWeighted node is being used to combine multiple curves.
-showUnitlessCurves(-su)	boolean
This flag (in combination with -expandConnections) specifies whether or not connection expansion should show unitless animCurves
-showCompounds(-cmp)	boolean
This flag specifies whether or not compound attributes should be displayed, or just the leaf attributes Note: if showConnected is true, and the compound attribute is connected, it will still be displayed
-showLeafs(-laf)	boolean
This flag specifies whether or not leaf attributes should be displayed, or just the compound attributes Note: if showConnected is true, and the leaf attribute is connected, it will still be displayed
-showNumericAttrsOnly(-num)	boolean
This flag specifies whether or not all attributes should be displayed, or just numeric attributes Note: if showConnected is true, and the attribute is connected, it will still be displayed
-editAttrName(-ean)	boolean
This flag specifies whether or not attribute names can be edited. By default double-clicking on an attribute will open the expression editor for that attribute
-showUVAttrsOnly(-uv)	boolean
This flag specifies whether or not all attributes should be displayed, or just uv attributes Note: currently the only attribute which will be displayed is Shape.uvSet.uvSetName
-highlightActive(-ha)	boolean
This flag specifies whether or not the outliner should highlight objects that are active Note: if the outliner is driving the contents of another editor setting highlightActive to true may produce unexpected behavior
-highlightSecondary(-hs)	boolean
This flag specifies whether or not the outliner should highlight objects that are contained in the highlightConnection
-autoSelectNewObjects(-as)	boolean
This flag specifies whether or not new objects added to the outliner should be automatically selected
-doNotSelectNewObjects(-dns)	boolean
If true this flag specifies that new objects added to the outliner will not be selected, even if they are active
-dropIsParent(-dip)	boolean
This flag specifies the mode for drag'n'drop. If the flag is true, dropping items will do a reparent; if it is false, dropping will reorder items. By default, the flag is true (parent)
-transmitFilters(-tf)	boolean
This flag specifies how the selectionConnection is populated when attribute filters are enabled. If this flag is set to true, then all the attributes that pass the filter will be placed on the selectionConnection. By default this flag is false
-showSelected(-sc)	boolean
If true then the selected items are expanded in the outliner
-setFilter(-sf)	string
Specifies the name of a filter which is used to filter which (if any) sets to display.
-showSetMembers(-ssm)	boolean
If true then when a set is expanded, the set members will be displayed. If false, then only other sets will be displayed.
-organizeByLayer(-obl)	boolean
If true then when a node with animation layer is displayed, attributes will be displayed according to the layer(s) it belongs to: eg: Layer1 Attr1 Attr2 Layer2 Attr1 If it is false then the outliner will be organized primarily by attributes. eg: Attr1 Layer1 Layer2 Attr2 Layer1
-showAnimLayerWeight(-saw)	boolean
If true then when a node with animation layer is displayed, the weight of the layer will be displayed if it is keyed.
-autoExpandLayers(-ael)	boolean
If true then when a node with animation layer is displayed, all the animation layers will show up in expanded form.
-allowMultiSelection(-ams)	boolean
If true then multiple selection will be allowed in the outliner.
-alwaysToggleSelect(-ats)	boolean
If true, then clicking on an item in the outliner will select or deselect it without affecting the selection of other items (unless allowMultiSelection is false). If false, clicking on an item in the outliner will replace the current selection with the selected item.
-directSelect(-ds)	boolean
If true then clicking on an item in the outliner will add or remove just that item from the selection connection. If false then clicking on an item in the outliner causes the selection connection to be reloaded with the currently selected items in the outliner.
-parentObject(-po)
-object(-obj)	name
This flags is used together with the parentObject flag to get the name of the parent object for the specified object.
-displayMode(-dm)	string
Affects how the outliner displays when a filter is applied. List mode is a non-indented flat list. DAG mode indents to represent the hierarchical structure of the model.
-expandObjects(-eo)	boolean
This flag specifies whether or not objects that are loaded in should be automatically expanded.
-setsIgnoreFilters(-sif)	boolean
This flag specifies whether or not the filter should be ignored for expanding sets to show set members (default is true).
-containersIgnoreFilters( -cif)	boolean
This flag specifices whether or not filters should be ignored when displaying container contents.
-showAttrValues(-av)	boolean
This flag specifies whether attribute values or attribute names should be displayed. Note: currently only string attributes can have their values displayed
-masterOutliner(-mst)	string
This flag is the name of an outliner that this outliner will share the objects and state from. When an outliner is shared, all of its state information comes from, and is applied to, the master outliner.
-isChildSelected(-ics)	name
This flag allows you to query if one or more of the children of the specified item is selected in the outliner. The item should be specified using a unique DAG path. Note that if the specified item appears multiple times in the outliner, the result will be true if one or more children of any occurrence of the specified item in the outliner is/are selected.
-attrAlphaOrder(-aao)	string
Specify how attributes are to be sorted. Current recognised values are "default" for no sorting and "ascend" to sort attributes from 'a' to ''z' and "descend" to sort from 'z' to 'a'. Notes: a) this only applies to top level attributes.
-animLayerFilterOptions( -alf)	string
Specifies whether a filter is to be applied when displaying animation layers. If so, the options can be "allAffecting" (no filter), "active" (only the active layers on the object will be displayed) and "animLayerEditor" (the settings will be taken from the animation layer editor).
-sortOrder(-so)	string
Specify how objects are to be sorted. Current recognised values are "none" for no sorting and "dagName" to sort DAG objects by name. Notes: a) non-DAG objects are always sorted by nodeType and name. b) when sortOrder is set to "dagName", objects cannot be reordered using drag-and-drop, they can however be reparented
-longNames(-ln)	boolean
Controls whether long or short attribute names will be used in the interface. Note that this flag is ignored if the -niceNames flag is set. Default is short names. Queried, returns a boolean.
-niceNames(-nn)	boolean
Controls whether the attribute names will be displayed in a more user-friendly, readable way. When this is on, the longNames flag is ignored. When this is off, attribute names will be displayed either long or short, according to the longNames flag. Default is on. Queried, returns a boolean.
-selectCommand(-sec)	script
A command to be executed when an item is selected.
-showNamespace(-sn)	boolean
This flag specifies whether all objects will have their namespace displayed, if namespace different than root.
-pinPlug(-pin)	name
Pins the named plug, so it always appears in the outliner, irrespective of the incoming selection connection. In query mode, returns a list of the pinned plugs.
-unpinPlug(-unp)	name
Unpins the named plug.
-showPinIcons(-spi)	boolean
Sets whether pin icons are shown for unpinned plugs.

Flag can appear in Create mode of command	Flag can appear in Edit mode of command
Flag can appear in Query mode of command	Flag can be used more than once in a command.

MEL examples

// Create a new regular outliner in its own window
//
window;
frameLayout -labelVisible false;
string $panel = `outlinerPanel`;
string $outliner = `outlinerPanel -query -outlinerEditor $panel`;
outlinerEditor -edit
    -mainListConnection "worldList"
    -selectionConnection "modelList"
    -showShapes false
    -showAttributes false
    -showConnected false
    -showAnimCurvesOnly false
    -autoExpand false
    -showDagOnly true
    -ignoreDagHierarchy false
    -expandConnections false
    -showNamespace true
    -showCompounds true
    -showNumericAttrsOnly false
    -highlightActive true
    -autoSelectNewObjects false
    -doNotSelectNewObjects false
    -transmitFilters false
    -showSetMembers true
    -setFilter defaultSetFilter
    $outliner;
showWindow;


// The following creates a special filter which consists of the union of the DefaultCamerShapesFilter and the
// DefaultAllLightsFilter and invokes this new filter on the outlinerEditor.
string $special =`itemFilter -union DefaultCameraShapesFilter DefaultAllLightsFilter`;
outlinerEditor -edit -filter $special outlinerPanel1;