Create a object with collection instance by link to another blendfile collection by its name

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I currently use this to add groups by name as object instance,
can’t get it to work with collections…: plese give me some help…

for valgrp in validgroups:

            with bpy.data.libraries.load(fullname, link=True) as (data_from, data_to):
                data_to.groups = [valgrp]
                # data_to.groups = data_from.groups

            for grp in data_to.groups:
                if grp is not None:
                    instance = bpy.data.objects.new('dupli_group', None)
                    instance.dupli_type = 'GROUP'
                    instance.dupli_group = grp
                    sce.objects.link(instance)

                    instance.name = objname
                    instance.location = loc
                    instance.scale = sca
                    instance.rotation_euler = rot
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Some things were renamed, for this script mainly:

groups -> collections
dupli_type -> instance_type
dupli_group -> instance_collection
scene.objects.link -> scene.collection.objects.link
3

yeah, thanks, it would have took me ages to find the renames out…
also .instance_type = ‘COLLECTION’ now, works flawless :+1: