Is there a way to sync from the browser console?

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During the app development, I want to quickly sync the changes I have made to the configuration. For that, I need to go to the menu and click on Sync now.

Is there any command that I can run on the browser console which triggers the sync?

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@binod - this is a bit of a hack, but this worked for me:

document.getElementById("header-dropdown").children[6].children[0].click();

The reason it is a hack is it is brittle so when the DOM changes, this won’t work. However, for now - you should be good to go!

Here it is in action:

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Thank you, @mrjones!
The magic number for me was 13, but it worked! It will save me a couple of clicks. The best part is that it also works in the mobile view where the menu button is not even visible.

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@binod - happy that worked for you!

But, it sounds like it already broke for you and you had to specify a different child element? Can you let us know which was your specific click() call? If we do a little more prototyping, I suspect we can get it working in which it is more flexible based on different DOMs!

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This is what worked for me:
document.getElementById("header-dropdown").children[13].children[0].click();

However, it does not work right away. It starts working only after I have opened the menu once. I don’t have to keep the menu open though.

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Aha! The reason the index is lower for me is that 4.1 moved the sync to the top, away from “Log out”.

With this in mind, we can be a little more flexible (but not a lot, b/c we’re still tightly coupled to the DOM here). We can “initialize” things by clicking the hamburger menu. You only need to do this once per session:

document.getElementById("header-dropdown-link").click();

Now that the menu is in the DOM (and currently showing), you should be able to call this when ever you need to sync. By coupling it to the fa-refresh class, of which there’s only one in the DOM, we gain the flexibility of it being anywhere on the page:

document.getElementsByClassName("fa-refresh")[0].click();

Again - this will likely break in the future, but I successfully tested this on 3.17, 4.0.1 and 4.1.0 so if you’re in those versions, it should work for you! I did a spot check and 3.9 doesn’t work with this (but we could adapt it easily enough!)

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