D.VE Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 Hi, the User variables within the export persona are not working at all. You can add new variables in a slice, but they don't appear in other slices Affinity Designer 2.1 and 2.1.1 Mac Mini M2 Mac OS Ventura 13.5 No recent change in my system Definitley reproducible. Tried everything for hours old documents New document Updated AD (2.1 => 2.11) Tried to manually recreating the variables Tried to copy and pate the slice settings to clipboard => The variables are only valid within a slice Would be great if you could fix that in the near future. This will save me hours of work, since I use the export persona very extensively (with dozens of slices for each document). One of my main (and most annoying) tasks every day is to rename slices in Affinity Designer... (sorry that I recently suggested that as new feature (I just missed it) Best regards, Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff NathanC Posted August 14 Staff Share Posted August 14 Hi @D.VE, This is currently logged with the developers as an improvement to enable custom user defined variables to be used on other slices within a file, i've now bumped it with your report. 🙂 D.VE 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.VE Posted August 14 Author Share Posted August 14 Thanks a lot! What does "logged" mean? Why is this an "improvement"? If you can't use the variables globally, the feature actually doesn't make sense at all. Imo this is a bug! You can't even use the variables within ONE slice. If you have one slice with different export formats (e.g. PNG and PDF) you have to define the variables twice. If I have to do that every time it's easier to type in the filename directly. thy & regards, Dave 10 minutes ago, NathanC said: an improvement Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff NathanC Posted August 14 Staff Share Posted August 14 48 minutes ago, D.VE said: What does "logged" mean? There is already an existing report logged in our internal issue tracking system which the developers are aware of. 🙂 49 minutes ago, D.VE said: Why is this an "improvement"? If you can't use the variables globally, the feature actually doesn't make sense at all. Imo this is a bug! Likely this was originally logged as an improvement under the condition that it would be a significant improvement to the existing slice functionality rather than a bug with how it currently functions, but either way the developers are already aware of it's current limitations. 57 minutes ago, D.VE said: You can't even use the variables within ONE slice. If you have one slice with different export formats (e.g. PNG and PDF) you have to define the variables twice. If I have to do that every time it's easier to type in the filename directly. This point is also mentioned in the existing report. Old Bruce and D.VE 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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