Updating text variable via Action Plugin

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Hi,
For our company’s workflow we have to manually get the latest svn revision number and modify the respective text field on the PCB’s soldermask with this number incremented and save/commit it to the svn to have the correct svn number on the production pcb.
I want to automate this process with an action plugin and need to know, if I just need to change the variable in the project file or also in the pcb file:

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And what do I need to add in the python code, that the modification inside the textfile is transported to the update in the text field itself in the PCB editor?
Because when I changed the text variable in the pcb file settings, the value is not updated in the text field.

Hannes

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There is clearly a bug around the update of the variable inside Text field on the PCB.
On way to go around it is to use the variable inside a footprint, so that the test is part of the footprint. Doing this the change oof the variable do update the text of the footprint