Add custom label to addressables group

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Hello,

I’d like to add custom labels to some entries inside of localization assets/strings groups to have more control when downloading bundles from remote.

However, all groups used by Localization package seem to be read-only. How can I add custom labels?

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You can remove the read only flag by editing the group asset. You may need to switch the inspector to debug mode to see the field.

3

Thanks, @karl_jones !

Unchecking the flag makes a group editable, but all entries inside of it remain read-only. I.e. can’t rename or change labels.

Restarting Unity didn’t help.

4

Oh looks like they changed things since I last did that.
It seems they now also have a readonly flag on each entry. You can do the same and go and remove it. Its in the field called Serialize Entries.

5

It seems to work, thank you!

If anyone has thousands of entries like we do, here is an Editor tool I used to remove “ReadOnly” label from all entries in a group.

using UnityEditor;
using UnityEditor.AddressableAssets.Settings;
using UnityEngine;

public class ReadonlyRemover : EditorWindow
{
    private AddressableAssetGroup _addressableAssetGroup;

    [MenuItem("Window/Readonly Remover")]
    public static void ShowWindow()
    {
        GetWindow<ReadonlyRemover>("Readonly Remover");
    }

    private void OnGUI()
    {
        EditorGUILayout.LabelField("AddressableAssetGroup Readonly Remover", EditorStyles.boldLabel);

        EditorGUILayout.Space();

        _addressableAssetGroup = (AddressableAssetGroup)EditorGUILayout.ObjectField("Addressable Asset Group",
            _addressableAssetGroup, typeof(AddressableAssetGroup), false);

        if (GUILayout.Button("Remove Readonly Flag"))
        {
            if (_addressableAssetGroup != null)
            {
                RemoveReadonlyFlag();
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.LogError("AddressableAssetGroup is null. Please assign an AddressableAssetGroup.");
            }
        }
    }

    private void RemoveReadonlyFlag()
    {
        foreach (var entry in _addressableAssetGroup.entries)
            entry.ReadOnly = false;

        EditorUtility.SetDirty(_addressableAssetGroup);
        AssetDatabase.SaveAssets();
        AssetDatabase.Refresh();
        Debug.Log("Readonly flags have been removed.");
    }
}