Python script renders a collection even when excluded from view layer

Question

I have the following code to render child collections within a collection:

sideplates = bpy.data.collections["RACK 1 - 1 RACK FRAME"].children

for s in sideplates:
    s.hide_render=False
    s.hide_viewport=False
    n = s.name
    
    # render 800 x 600 
    
        scene.render.resolution_x = render1xresolution
        scene.render.resolution_y = render1yresolution            
        bpy.data.scenes["CONFIGURATOR 800 x 600"].render.filepath = '/BlenderPythonTest'
        bpy.ops.render.render(write_still = 1)
         
    s.hide_render=True
    s.hide_viewport=True

The collection structure looks like this:

I have tried to untick the box, excluding the child collections from the parent collection. Running the script will still render the "Nuage" collection et al, when what I would like from the picture above is just to render "Sable", "Souquillou" and "Cab".

Is this possible and if so, how?

Answer 1

I did this recently, you have to access your collection through specific view layer. You should try :

my_view_layer = bpy.context.view_layer #up to you

#append to sideplates only checked collection
sideplates = []
for collection in my_view_layer.layer_collection.children["RACK 1 - 1 RACK FRAME"].children :
    if collection.exclude == False :
        sideplates.append(collection)

##render individually checked collections
for s in sideplates:
    
    #exclude every other collection
    for sp in sideplates:
        if sp != s :
            sp.exclude = True
            
    ## RENDER STUFF ##
    
    #restore exclude attribute
    for sp in sideplates:
            sp.exclude = False

Answer 2

As per Tomreggaes suggestion in this post, final code looked like this:

my_view_layer = bpy.context.view_layer

sideplates = my_view_layer.layer_collection.children["ONE RACK UNIT - INC BASES AND TOPS"].children["RACK 1 (COLUMN 1)"].children["UNIT 1 - 1"].children["UNIT 1 - 1 RACK UNIT"].children["RACK 1 - 1 RACK FRAME"].children

for s in sideplates:
    
    if s.exclude == False :
        
        s.collection.hide_render = False
        s.collection.hide_viewport = False
               
    ## render 800 x 600 
        if rendersideplates == True:
            n = s.name 
            ##raise Exception()
            scene.render.resolution_x = render1xresolution
            scene.render.resolution_y = render1yresolution            
            bpy.data.scenes["CONFIGURATOR 800 x 600"].render.filepath = '/BlenderPythonTest/Configurator/Single Rack/Rack Frame/%(2)s/800x600/%(1)s 800x600 %(2)s.%(3)s'  % {"1" : n, "2" : camname, "3" : picformat}
            bpy.ops.render.render(write_still = 1)
            
            
        s.collection.hide_render = True
        s.collection.hide_viewport = True