Replacing The entry.tp File For Touch Portal v3

Touch Portal v4 introduces some nice features like sorting all the plugin's actions/connectors into one main sub-category. Unfortunately this layout isn't directly compatible with TP v3, where all the plugin's actions will appear as one long list under the plugin's name.

Touch Portal v3 users can get the categorized list back by replacing the plugin's entry.tp file, which is in the plugin's installation folder. This file tells TP how things like actions are to be organized.

A TP v3-compatible entry.tp is also included alongside the default TP v4 one. They are both located in the plugin's installation folder!

The plugin's installation folder is in Touch Portal's configuration directory:
C:\Users\<User_Name>\AppData\Roaming\TouchPortal\plugins\MSFS-TouchPortal-Plugin
or for the FSX edition:
C:\Users\<User_Name>\AppData\Roaming\TouchPortal\plugins\FSX-TouchPortal-Plugin
where <User_Name> is your Windows user name.

In there you will find a file named entry.tp and another named TPv3-entry.tp. Simply rename them:

entry.tp       -->  TPv4-entry.tp
TPv3-entry.tp  -->  entry.tp

And this way you can always switch back if you want to, or if you update to TP v4.

And BTW there's no need to re-install the whole plugin if updating TP, just make sure the correct entry.tp file is active so you can get the full benefit.

Note that you will need to do this for every new plugin version/update, since that will put the default entry.tp back in place.