I am modifying a client screen and I want to save the modified screen without affecting the operation of the currently used screen. How do I save the draft screen and how do I replace the current screen when its ready launch?
You cannot, directly.
In prior versions of Ignition we had a "staging" feature that allowed you to do this, but it was an endless source of confusion and bugs, and we dropped it in Ignition 8.0.
You can export your project/resources from the designer, which will include the locally modified resources you haven't yet saved.
If I export an incomplete window? How do reopen it for more modifications?
You import it back into a designer that's already open to the appropriate project. It'll overlay onto the current active project in the designer, but not push anything unless you save.
I usually duplicate the resource and rename it appropriately. If I need to rollback I just rename back to the original.
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