Selecting a VCA or Folder to spill on S6.

Hi @Kevin_Roache,

Thanks for posting here, I'm sorry you have had no replies yet.

From your post, I'm not sure I understand the workflow you are trying to achieve. It may be best to think about how you reproduce the workflow manually and list the steps. That way will be much easier for the SoundFlow community to provide you with a possible solution.

Something like, "When I do x, I want y to happen. To do this manually I would do A... B... C... to achieve this result"

I'll keep my eye on this post to see if I can help you further with your workflow. :-)

Rock on!

Hi! Thanks for your reply. Basically, I would like to be able to select a track even when it is not visible on the current screen. That way, I could attention/spill Folders and VCAs without having to scroll them. - There is no manual way to do this except to scroll/click or pick the Folder/VCA from the console surface.

It was able select the track ... but not simulate a click. Thank you. Will try updating a menu item. Any idea for a VCA menu item?

I was able to add a shift+control to the command to make the folder justify to the top. So now, this command finds a vca/folder, spills it on an s1/s4/s6, and brings it to the top. You have to replace "My Folder" with the name of your own folder.

const trackName = 'My Folder';

const track = sf.ui.proTools.trackGetByName({ name: trackName }).track;
track.trackSelect();
track.trackScrollToView();
track.titleButton.mouseClickElement();

sf.ui.proTools.mainWindow.groups.whoseTitle.is("My Folder - Basic Folder Track ").first.popupButtons.whoseTitle.is("Track name\n\"My Folder\"").first.mouseClickElement({
    isShift: true,
    isControl: true,
});

    const trackName = 'LV Mix';

    const track = sf.ui.proTools.trackGetByName({ name: trackName }).track;
    track.trackSelect();
    track.trackScrollToView();
    track.titleButton.mouseClickElement();

    sf.ui.proTools.mainWindow.groups.whoseTitle.is("LV Mix").first.popupButtons.whoseTitle.is("Track name\n\"LV Mix\"").first.mouseClickElement({
        isShift: true,
        isControl: true,
    });```

Thanks for making this Kevin.
I seem to be having some of the same issues as @Philip_weinrobe.
Philip, I'm running an S3 as well and I'm hoping to spill VCA's (not folder tracks).
Have you had any luck with this?

no luck....
would be so great to figure out a way to do this...

ok. i got the script to shift+ctrl click on a routing folder in my session.

this did attention the track to be the left most track on my S3.

however, it does not auto spill. i really am not sure auto spilling is possible since i'm pretty sure that functionality is inside the S3 surface. Pro Tools doesn't know that the folder is spilled or not...

pro tools does know to open the folder when the S3 says "spill"...but that seems to be it.

new update
i got it so if i click the name of the track on the Control App (ipad/mac app) then the folder will auto-spill on the S3. however, i can't seem to find a way to do this by clicking the folder in Pro Tools

Hi. Yes, this only works if the surface you allows spilling of a folder/vca when the track name is clicked. If that is an option on the S3 anywhere, it should work.

Unfortunately I’m not at work now and won’t have access to an S6 until Monday. I will try then.

Here is the pref page from the S6. It allows you to attention clicked track and then auto spill the attentioned track.