Notes on globals

[ngervasi]

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?

[ebrandt]

It would be nice to add comments to all fields through the front end as well.

[mjekl]

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

[sls2000]

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.

[mjekl]

mistaken post

[IT2Be]

The upcoming Analyzer will offer the ability to make notes...