Often when FMPA crashes, all expressions listed in the Data Viewer's watch list are erased. Also when setting up multiple development environments it is helpful if we can all monitor the same expressions in the Data Viewer's "Watch" list.
Would like to be able to copy/paste and/or import export all expressions in the "Watch"list from one computer to another, and to save the list to disk as backup in the event of a crash.
This is a great idea. I would even like to see a set of these, so you can switch between projects or tasks.
There are many suggested ideas for the Data Viewer. Two of them identical to this one:
Ability to save sets of 'Watched' Expressions in the Data Viewer (Oct. 2015, 28 votes)
Data Viewer Save/Load current watch expressions (Sept. 2017, 6 votes)
I wonder sometimes if it's better to "pool" all votes into the original idea, or just keep up-voting every duplicate. I've tended to do the former but I care less about duplicates than about getting FMI's attention. The DV could definitely use some of that.
Hello automation_usa,
Discussions about the need for this has come up in the past both in this forum and others (for example https://community.filemaker.com/message/632387?et=watches.email.thread#632387), so thanks for this.
Beatrice