How to change an app for a profile?

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    Shipping & Sales

    There isn't a setting for this in the UI, but it's pretty simple if you're comfortable changing the executable name and/or the bundle name in the profile itself.

    Just open a .monogram file in a text editor and change it to match the new version—ie com.someapplication.someappv1 becomes com.someapplication.someappv2—then save the changes to the same profile.

    Ultimately there's no setting for this in Creator because a lot of things on the integration side can (and will) break if you try to move a profile from one app to another; we'd get a million angry messages that Lightroom Classic profiles can't just be moved to Premiere Pro and similar. But if it's just to reflect a version change of the same app, the above should serve you well.

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    Karmalakas

    Oh, it's a simple JSON :) Thanks

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    Karmalakas

    Hmm... In the JSON I see

      "version": "3.0",
    "id": "in-uhGTPS26EI0WH29Olk",
    "title": "MPC",
    "app": {
    "exe": ["mpc-hc64.exe"],
    "name": "MPC-HC (x64)"
    },

    MPC version is definitely not 3.0, so I guess it's some kind of profile file versioning. Also there's no path to exe file. I don't think executable name changed, or does MCC recognize app only by exe name?

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    Shipping & Sales

    Yes—let me correct my earlier reply. It's the executable name that you would edit. If the .exe doesn't change, it should continue working as expected.

    The Version field there is for Monogram purposes and doesn't reflect the target app.

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    Oli

    You can also convert to a Universal Profile by replacing the app bundle 

    "app":{"bundle":["com.culturedcode.ThingsMac"],"name":"Things"}

    with…

    "app":""

    In some instances I'd like to make a profile that works with more than one app, but not be universal (for example, the apps from Native Instruments or Arturia). So it would be nice if the JSON file could accept multiple bundle IDs, for a semi-universal profile.

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