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MSFS20 Checklist creation

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I'm cutting my teeth in the MSFS dev world with creating a checklist for an aircraft that doesn’t have one. I would love to get it to the point I can do the gauge / switch highlighting and the “eyeball” to take you to the item.

…right now I’d be happy if I could get it to check ONE thing. I apologize, it’s late night and I’m not at my PC at the moment, so I may goof up some names of stuff.

I found a checklist tutorial on the official forums, and it was ok but it never told me that I had to edit a .json file to tell the sim where to look for the checklist and libraries I was going to use. I thought I had that all sorted out, but my simple checklist (is the parking brake on?) doesn’t load and I just get a blank checklist screen. My guess is that I haven’t referenced the checklist and / or library correctly. I tried searching YouTube, but my search words must have been wrong.

Anybody got any tips or “gotchas” that I should look out for?
 
Step one. You need the layout.json file to list the checklist files otherwise MSFS simply will not recognise that they exist. For example:

Code: 
    {
      "path": "SimObjects/Airplanes/antsairplanes-drifter-a-582/Checklist/Drifter_Checklist.xml",
      "size": 18424,
      "date": 132810527000303737
    },
    {
      "path": "SimObjects/Airplanes/antsairplanes-drifter-a-582/Checklist/Drifter_Library.xml",
      "size": 100585,
      "date": 132814905349196334
    },

Step two: I recommend you copy a working checklist from a default aircraft into the one you are working on. Your first step should then be to get that checklist working by making the necessary changes to the layout.json.

Start with stuff that you know works so you only have to worry about one problem at a time.
 
Anthony31 said:
Step two: I recommend you copy a working checklist from a default aircraft into the one you are working on. Your first step should then be to get that checklist working by making the necessary changes to the layout.json.
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Aha - thank you for the guidance!

Makes sense. Use something that works, try something simple first. I will do that today!
 
Ok - whew. Figured out that my copy / paste of the entries in the layout.json didnʻt have the correct size / date lines. Found a .json tool to help me figure those out. Once I did that (lol and found the correct plane), I can get the "other" checklist to load in my plane. Whew.

Now... to start editing.
 
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