Setting Symbol Owning Object Property with Expression

Currently there are two ways to set an owning object dynamically via any expression or reference that resolves to a string:

• ShowGraphic/ShowContent and most recently, EmbedContent, which allows the owning object to be set as a string of the respective object tagname before the graphic is displayed.

• Within the graphic editor, you can reference embedded toolbox symbols and override the .OwningObject of the symbol in action scripts or symbol scripts. This too accepts a string property, which should be equal to the tagname of the desired owning object.

There is one way you can set the owning object statically through the OwningObject property of a symbol in the properties tab. However, this property expects an absolute reference to the desired object (Only works with the static tagname string). It will accept relative references (such as Me.attribute or a custom property), but in runtime it throws a warning and does not work as expected.

It would be great if we could set the owning object property in the properties tab of a symbol to any expression, relative reference, or object reference we want that resolves to a string of the tagname we need, the same way it works for setting the .OwningObject in scripting. This would clean up our symbol scripts and improve overall runtime efficiency for use cases of needing to set multiple dynamic owning objects on a given graphic.

Example

In my example image, the symbol A_Icon_Display_Simple is an embedded symbol on a oil well overview graphic. The well overview graphic has a unique oil well owning object. Well.OutAnnulus is a string attribute of the well object and stores the tagname of the particular analog object that we want to dynamically set the owning object of the symbol A_Icon_Display_Simple to. The image displays the desired functionality, not what is currently working.