As solutions grow and get more and more complicated it’s not easy to remember the meaning of a global field and sometimes you end up with global duplications or unused globals that you don’t dare to delete.
Could it be possible to have a note field in the global creation pane to keep track of the meaning and use of each global variable?
It would be nice to add comments to all fields through the front end as well.
That would be nice. Specially if the comments appeared a tooltip in the Globals tree.
But I rather…
Define “globals” at the form level. And have a Globals node under each form.
This seems possible. Clearly a global is:
- a variable blessed with the ability to be a dataprovider (in a form);
- accessible from anywhere;
Frankly I would love to have the ability to have them defined at the form level. Even if with global scope - then it would be the developers responsibility to use them globally or not. Because:
- I would almost stop using globals at solution level;
- encorages the use of parameters to transmit information between forms (this is already possible);
- MOST IMPORTANTLY: I would not create solution level globals to support fields only existing at form level (like criteria for searches);
- Finish with the globals mess, always not sure if it’s still used (reminds of FMP)
IMHO,
Miguel
I agree. It would help tremendously to have a column for comments when entering new globals.
I would also like to request a comment field for methods, calculations and forms as well. I know you can comment within these areas, but it would be nice to have them in one spot.
If these comments are implimented correctly, a simple report can be generated automatically with a list of globals, calculations, methods and forms and where they are used. What an great tool for documentation.
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The upcoming Analyzer will offer the ability to make notes…