# How are people managing scripts?

**URL:** <https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/how-are-people-managing-scripts/2854>\
**Category:** Server-Side Scripting\
**Created:** [June 15, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/how-are-people-managing-scripts/2854 "2016-06-15T18:19:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jimijon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/jimijon/32/718_2.png) [@jimijon](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/jimijon)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/how-are-people-managing-scripts/2854/1 "2016-06-15T18:19:01Z")

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1. First issues is the when I am in the backend of DreamFactory I really don’t want it to run my pre-process scripts. Is there a switch to by-pass scripts?

2. I have a common script to change the filter. Am I supposed to upload this common script to the “Files” area? How do I reference it then in my “script.”

3. Bug? In 2.2 when you get to the table level, the scripts are light yellow anymore that are active.

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**Author:** ![formerstaff](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/formerstaff/32/1133_2.png) [@formerstaff](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/formerstaff)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/how-are-people-managing-scripts/2854/2 "2016-07-06T19:16:18Z")

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1.) No way to bypass only for admin. Scripts are either on or off.  
2.) Scripts can be imported from the storage/scripting directory. For example lodash.min.js and underscore-min.js are both included in this folder in the Bitnami distributions. They are used in scripting as per the examples in the wiki – `var lodash = require("lodash.min.js");`  
3.) Yes, this is a bug. It’s under active development.

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**Author:** ![jimijon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/jimijon/32/718_2.png) [@jimijon](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/jimijon)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 1:32pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/how-are-people-managing-scripts/2854/3 "2016-07-07T13:32:48Z")

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1. How about a global “Turn Scripts Off” switch? That should be trivial.
2. There were quite a few directories titled “scripting” so documentation was a bit obscure to find this.
3. ok.