Close a layer with scripting

Hello Adobe Community,
I would like to know if it is possible to close layer attributes via scripting ?
Right now I have time-remapping in my script and when the script is done, then the time-remap paramater is shown under the layer.
I would like to close all the attributes, so that only the layer name is shown.
Thank You!
B2H

It's under: Stuff that makes no sense... To clarify I
uploaded a quick example:
embedFont
First frame has a dynamic textfield, "HelveticaRounded Bold"
as font family (you can change that to whatever font you are using)
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_global.style.setStyle("fontFamily" , "HelveticaRounded
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