Icons for Variable Types and the ability to order and m...

At a glance

The community members discussed the following main points:

1. Desire for different icons to represent different data variable types (e.g., String, Number, Boolean) in the "Data Variables" list to make it easier to identify them.

2. Request to be able to reorder the "Data Variables" list, such as putting all resources at the top and all strings at the bottom, to help with organization as the project grows.

3. Suggestion to allow moving data variables from the Body to the Global Root or other components.

The community members also discussed the feasibility of these requests, with some noting that not all variable types are easy to represent with icons. They also mentioned that a context menu to copy/paste properties and data variables is planned to be added.

RRonald from 360Creators

I think it'd be great if these Types like String, Number, Boolean etc can have their own icon that reflects back into the blue Data Variables list.

Right now I'm guessing which one is a resource and which one is a string.

It'd also be nice if I can move the order of these Data Variables, so that I can list all resources on top and all strings to the bottom or however I see fit. The more a project grows, the more items come into the Global Root list and staying organized is nice then.

And it'd be even more epic if I could move a data variable from the Body to the Global Root or to any other component.

19 comments

OOleg Isonen

hmm here you see the type, where do you have to guess/

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OOleg Isonen

here too

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OOleg Isonen

moving variables - we will add a context menu to copy/paste properties and the same thing can be done for data variables as well!

creating an issue

BBogdan

Would sorting by name make sense? We do not allow sorting styles or properties.

OOleg Isonen

btw you can currently copy resource variable!

BBogdan

You mean resource as curl?

JJohn Siciliano

Copy gets you kind of there but if the resource uses bindings in the url or headers then those are lost on paste. You just get their computed values then need to go back and copy the epxressions

JJohn Siciliano

btw the initial design spec uses icons. Always wondered why we didn't use them

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BBogdan

Do you still face this problem after global variables launch?

JJohn Siciliano

Yeah I dont think thats changed anything. In Ronalds example he wants to move them from the body to global root

A similar example is adding a resource to the Posts page and Sitemap page. Very similar resource. They will both depend on global vars, but the resource itself is local

BBogdan

Ah, cURL does not preserve variables. You are right.

RRonald from 360Creators

Yes correct

RRonald from 360Creators

Ah yes that'd be great as well!

RRonald from 360Creators

Indeed!

RRonald from 360Creators

Nice, that's already half the work then I hope! Haha 😁

RRonald from 360Creators

And I think it could be nice that Resource is the first item in the list instead of String