GregD

For those who don't know what is the states panel, you could watch the official video instruction by Serif. 
1. the states panel in Affinity Photo could record the layer hide/show state of the whole document. It's also unspokenly useful in Affinity Designer.
2. the states panel existing in Affinity Photo can't be used when in Export Persona. If we could switch between various states when exporting, it will save quite a lot of time. e.g., this usage I mentioned in the past
3. adding built-in system variable in export-properties for quick referencing when configuring custom filename.

What's the point of having States without a way to export? This is a must have! Thanks to consider this.

It would be very useful if the export persona allowed us to choose what layers were exported for each slice.
I do complicated graphs that build up from simpler ideas. So it is useful to put the basic graph on one layer, some enhancements on another layer, and perhaps point out some specific features on a third layer. I then want to export this as three separate images: Just layer 1, Layers 1+2, and Layers 1+3. At the moment the only way I've found to do this is to manually change the visibility of the layers and the name of the exported file and then export one file. This process needs to be repeated three times in my example.
I can also imagine that icon designers would find this useful. They could have a layer with the basic icon and then other layers with overlays (check marks, or plusses etc). If there was the possibility of selecting which layers were visible for each slice they could set up batch exports for these.

+1
Having a feature like this (and/or some sort of standalone layer presets) would be really helpful when exporting multiple versions of a logo or illustration. Sometimes I need to hide all my fill colors to export a black and white version. Being able to turn color/fill layers on and off without having to do it manually through 50+ layers and multiple groups each time would be a HUGE time saver.

Wonderful !!
Thank you so much, I was indeed trying to simply let it float, I was completely unaware of the pinned float functionality. That's exactly what I needed !
Awesome, thx Walt !
 

What do you mean by "let it float"? Just sitting there on the page, or Pinned Floating?