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  • Display CSV group name as sourceText?

    Posted by Andrew Marston on June 29, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    I’m trying to display the name of a csv column as text by using expressions to link to the data’s group name, but can’t seem to get it. I thought the expression should be as follows, but it returns an error which reads “Static data node not found at input path. Found node type: Group data node.” Any ideas?
    footage("Weight2020 3 People.csv").dataValue([1])

    I can display the actual cell data (in this case numbers) using the following expression, but not the name of the array which I’ll use to create a label for a graph.
    footage("Weight2020 3 People.csv").dataValue([1,0])

    Andrew Marston replied 5 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Filip Vandueren

    June 29, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    I don’t think you can extract them from the footage.
    However, if you add that csv-footage to your comp as a layer, you can get to it like this:

    thisComp.layer("data.csv")("Data")("Outline")(1).name

    note that (1) will give you the first column name, it is not 0-indexed.

  • Andrew Marston

    June 29, 2020 at 11:34 pm

    Thanks so much!

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