Copy/Move variable groups into other collections

I too just hit this. I have tokens in another collection linked up that I now realise I need to move to a different collection as they’ve grown

This is really needed.

Same here, I am actually going through the deep dive session from yesterday and ran into that issue. Great intro in variables though, thanks Ricky & Garrett!

Currently, when you copy an element that has variables applied, the pasted version does not carry over the defined variables. If I want to reuse the variables, I have to set them again.

Hey there, as we all are excited about these new features, I wonder if it can be possible to change a variable’s collection after creating one.

Since all of these are new, we are experimenting to find the best practice for organizing variables, sometimes we decide to change our system to make a better one. This option can help to get things even faster 😃

Update: splitting a collection would be also a great help if my previous request has some implementation challenges. Only if we could move some parts of a Collection into a new Collection. (or maybe, turning a group into a collection)

What do you think?

I guess it will be a conflict between modes, as every collection have a different list of modes.

oh, Yes I didn’t consider that while I was posting this. yeah of course. thanks

Good remark @Natalie_Doronina , but maybe we can imagine a way to move from collection to collection, warning the user he will lose the mode information if a mismatch, or a UI to do vairable mode values mapping from collection to collection.

The UI is not perfect, and at first we don’t identify collection very well, so I think after discovering in a second step the collection feature, many users will wish to move their existing variables to collections.

That’d also be great if we could move variables from one file to another.

Agreed! This is especially needed as we’re all getting acquainted with variables… as we figure out the best way to organize our systems, there will inevitably be a lot of organizing/reorganizing going on. We should be able to:

• move variables from one collection to another
• re-order modes
• move variables from one file to another
• move collections from one file to another