Hiding a layer with script?

Hello,
is there a way of setting a layer created with a script to hidden? - so that in ae it has that little eye icon turned off.
any suggestions would be sweeet!
thanks, Sam

This will turn off the eye icon:
myLayer.enabled = false;
Dan

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I would like to close all the attributes, so that only the layer name is shown.
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It's under: Stuff that makes no sense... To clarify I
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Rajiv.s

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