The fact you got tripped up by this is actually really valuable. We just reworked this UI before the public beta, and clearly it’s causing some confusion.
There are a few things in regards to the contents of this thread that I’ll note we’re aware of:
- Binding to parameters, either directly or as part of a string, is not very self-explanatory. As I just wrote in reply to Phil, we’ll try to improve this soon.
- The whole “internal apply” vs. “overall apply” is clearly confusing. Tooltips or buttons with words could help, or maybe we have to do something a bit more drastic.
- In regards to deletion of data types- Ignition 7 allowed this, but with a warning/confirmation “Instances depend on this type, are you sure…”. We definitely need to add this back in
- One of our top priorities for the tag editor is to add back in full UDT structure editing, into the dialog. Originally in 8 we decided that all structure editing should be done in the tag tree- adding a member would be just like adding a tag to a folder. The tag editor would only edit a single tag/member at a time. However, as we used it, we felt it was too hard to mentally keep track of the scope of your data type, and decided we needed to bring the tree back into the editor. We’re half way there on that…
That’s for all of the feedback.