‘Picked object’ but for picked group

OK… I have figured out a solution…not the only one as I am sure there are some bright minds on here that could have done this differently. This may not even work for your needs or may need to be modified…I have no idea.

I started thinking what if the number of objects was in the thousands and what if someone just made a mistake placing the right object in the right collection or just forgot to put it in a collection. Sorting through thousands of objects would be horrific and reviewing the collections would just take too long to even want to think about.

I think the biggest issue is separating the difference between blender Collections and Verge. Collections are representations of organization and yes you could do it that way but using the same principles in the attached application but Verge is based on objects but so you can create lists of objects that represent a group/collection and then you are set.

First I had to pick a file name schema. I hate spaces in names so I modified yours to be mesh_Walls_1. and mesh_Room_1. With the incrementer being the last character.

Then from there I just created two text strings based on object names using the schema. Once the text strings were created, I converted those to a lists: wallList and roomList.

Then went to the onclick event for allobjects and depending on the name of the object clicked it hides the appropriate lists and shows the item that was clicked on.

The Blue sphere is just a reset so you can do try it out.
The other spheres were just remnants from the initial scene build.

Hope this helps.

Ok I was unclear on your functional logic

So what you need is

If a user selects meshwall1 that all objects are hidden except for room1 and wall1? If so that can be easily added using puzzles.

I will send a screen shot when I get to work.

GroupNames is fully available using JavaScript

Here is a puzzle solution that lets the user select a wall and it will hide everything except the group its in. Or you can select a room and it will hide everything except the group its in.

This example is based on the naming of the objects. In this case, there are two groups: mesh_Walls_1. and mesh_Room_1. Then the sub-groups are designated by the last character in the object name. mesh_Walls_1.1 where the last character “1” is sub-group 1.

In this example, I did not account for groups greater than a single digit. This will accommodate groups 0-9. So if you need groups with digits greater than 1, there would need to be some additional manipulation to get the groupNum and ObjectLength.

So what I would do is make sure all your objects have a naming structure that is a defined “length” before the “.” Example: mesh_Walls_1. = 13 characters and mesh_Room_1.=12. So I would rename all the mesh_Walls_1. to mesh_Wall_1. So that the naming of the objects are all 12 characters long.

Then you could get the length of the picked object and subtract 12 from it to determine the length of the GroupNum. Once you have the length of the GroupNum you can then loop through the string to pull the GroupNum value and then the rest of the puzzles would work.