I downloaded/installed Node-Red 0.19.3 and I am using Global Context in my flows. The Flow variables are showing, but the Global variables which are in use and working do not show up in the Global context window. I'm running Windows 10. Previous install was 0.18. How do I get the reference to t…

Closing the topic!.. Installed 0.20.0-beta.5. I'm not sure which version from Beta 4 or 5 fixed this issue, but it now is working! This is so nice to get this feature working. Thanks Node-RED team

[image] tree-frog: OK, Yes, The purpose of the small flow was to set a value into a Global Context and then pull it out of the Global Context variable and put it into the payload. Pretty much just a debug tool to show that it was working Exactly !

Do you do anything with functionGlobalContext in your settings file?

no, should I? I'm guessing I'm missing all the information on that topic.

[image] tree-frog: no, should I? I am trying to figure out why it isn't working for you, but is working for everyone else. There must be something unique about your setup and flows - but I simply have no idea at the moment what could cause the behaviour you are seeing. One possible area we h…

I was just looking at it with the documentation. I have not done anything to the file at all. I just looked at it and I have not saved it yet. contextStorage: { default: { module: "localfilesystem" } }, I inserted it before the comments of functionGlobalContext: {}, Where do I spec…

Might have kind of point in here. I missed 0.19.3 in both my systems.

I just upgraded to 0.19.4... It still isn't showing any Global Context variable information in the Context Sidebar. :persevere: However, I added the contextStorage... localfilesystem syntax to the settings.js and that's working great.

[image] tree-frog: I inserted it before the comments of functionGlobalContext: {}, This is not how I configured in my system. I added the context storage at the very end. logging: { // Only console logging is currently supported console: { // Level of logging to b…

So you see your global context stored in filesystem in folder C:\Users\YourUserName\ .node-red\context\global\global.json but still nothing in right side panel? is this correct?

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What if he tries upgrading to node-red 0.19.4?

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