Unblock after using BlockCollection?

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Hello,

I’d like some clarification on how BlockCollection works.

  1. Is it intended to stop the collection from targeting the Include/Exclude paths for temporary reasons?
  2. If so, once I’ve blocked a collection, is there a way to unblock it? Can I essentially mute/unmute a collection?

Thanks!
Scott Renaud

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Hi @ScottRenaud , no - BlockCollection() is not meant to be a muting-type, transitory operation. Rather, “blocking” is our property-level concept for a non-destructive “delete”. It will author explicitly empty relationships for include/exclude… if you call them in a layer where you have defined a non-empty collection, then it will actually be destructive. But the idea is that you can use it in a stronger layer to “block” what’s coming from the weaker layers.

You can then, in that layer or any stronger, author new include/excludes; if you actually remember which layer you did the Block in, you can use ResetCollection() to remove the block, so you can kind of model a mute/unmute that way, but it’s not really the same thing as muting layers, which really removes the layer’s data from the scene, temporarily.

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Ah gotchya ok that makes sense, thanks so much for the clarification @spiff!