Thank You. I wrote this because when I recently released my Favorite Mount and Favorite Pet addons, someone suggested I make a linked one. So I wrote this. I am still learning so it is nothing fancy, but it is functional.

I ran into an issue where because of how I create the link, the settings screen would not properly refresh without a full reload. But I just thought of an idea of how I might be able to do it without having to do a full reload ui. Let me do some testing.

Update: Thanks to help from other developers, I now have a way to make the settings page no longer require a reload.

[quote=Baertram]Be carefull if you change the SV in youra ddon now users will loose their settings if YOU do not migrate them from non server to server dependent ones!
Also if you change the version in the SavedVariables parameter this will set the old SV data = nil = gone!
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Thank you for the warning. I will change only this one, and include it in future addons.


Nope, you can either use the namespace or profile params to create "subtables" with that name in the SV files.
If namespace is left nil it will automatically be switched to "Default".
The last param displayName of the ZO_SavedVars:NewAcountWide function provides a way to save all @acountNames the same. If left empty it will use GetDisplayName() to use your @accountName, else it will use the string you specify there.
e.g. "AllAccountsTheSame" will save the data for no matetr what of your @accountNames the same -> Replacing the tablename "@AccountName" in the SV file with "AllAccountsTheSame".


I did just a straight search for SavedVariables from the main page, and there appears to be no specific page set up for it. I did find the Storing_data_and_accessing_files page. In the two links provided, Circonians does show the new way (updated on Jan 6, 2021 so it was changed after I had read it), and the notebook tutorial shows a very simplified old way of doing it. I also found some references to libstub still scattered about. I know that libstub is dead. I hate to go in and change someone's else's example code and work. it just does not feel right, plus I may introduce new errors since I am using that very same example code to learn how to do stuff.

Is there a group or webpage where people who discover this stuff post their newest ideas and have the latest update shown. I used the Recent Changes link on the ESOUI wiki, but I see that even though Circonians example was changed, it was not listed under recent changes. Like I said, I had read Circonians example several months ago and was using that as my standard, but I see he updated it on Jan. 6th so I had no idea that there is an improved way to do it accommodating for multiple servers.

This is a really cool idea. I will go back and make changes on my other addons as well. Looking at esoui/esoui/libraries/utility/zo_savedvars.lua it just says "*profile - An optional string to describe the profile, or Default" which did not make the usage very clear. I just followed the examples provided on ESOUI Wiki. Could you or someone else please update the ESOUI Wiki so that people like me who are learning will know that this is considered the best practice? In fact the Wiki specifically states, "profile - Allows you to select a specific profile instead of the current character's default profile. Probably not necessary for most simple add-ons without robust profile management." This sounds quite scary. Is there other stuff I need to add besides what you gave me in order to properly manage profiles?

There is a known issue when you have no link made, and only one link saved. I am working on the issues and should have an updated file loaded soon.