How to name timeline features through API?

[Anonymous]

In the gui's timeline I can right click a feature such as an extrude or a move to name it.  But in the API the name property for those features is read only and attempting to set it silently fails.  How does one set the name as displayed in the timeliine through the API?

[ekinsb · Accepted solution]

The TimelineObject doesn't provide read or write access to names.  This is an oversight that we just recently noticed and are working to add it in the API.  It should be available in the first update next year.

You mentioned that you are able to get the names of features but not change them.  You must have the discovered the ability to go from the TimelineObject to the object the timeline node represents.  Those objects should support the name property.  Unfortunately, there's another oversight there and the name property of the Feature object is currently read-only.  You can rename sketches and construction geometry but not features.  We need to add support for this.  So at this time I don't see any way of renaming a feature using the API.  Sorry.