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: 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?

Andrei, How are you switching between the default persistence and the memory type? Do you specify that somewhere else in the configuration or does it only load the "default" and you change that in the file here?

All about presistable context storage https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/context

yes, it's in the file. Also There IS Flow Context Data. on the Flow tab. it works when I switch the flow tabs.

[image] tree-frog: How are you switching between the default persistence and the memory type? I do like explained in the middle of this post... [image] Logic error - can i get some input please? General When using a node like the change node you can select the stor…

So this is certainly something for @knolleary to figure out. Needs deep knowledge of whole thing here. Very strange indeed.

[image] hotNipi: something for @knolleary to figure out Please don't let me stop y'all trying to figure it out whilst I'm busy with other things.

We tried. We failed. Sorry :no_mouth:

Andrei, Thanks, I had not connected the dots... I had wondered how you could select type of storage since you probably only want a select few of variables to be persistent. Otherwise you need to do a bunch of clean-up initializing values at re-starts. That view of the change node configuration …

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I do like explained in the middle of this post...

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Global context variables do not display in the Context Sidebar

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