Move a variable between two project suites

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I have two project suites.One of the project suites has a rather large table variable that I use as a lookup for specific x/y values to be clicked during a test.I'd like to duplicate the default values for this table in the other suite.Is there some way to export a table variable's contents, and then import it into another suite?&nbsp;I did manage to produce a comma delimited text file from my original table, but when I try to fill the empty table with that, it wants to put all the data into the first cell.&nbsp;I can use the split method in a script to make a temporary table full of &nbsp;the values, but don't know any scripting way of setting the default values in my target table...&nbsp;I'm beating my head against the wall, here, trying to move this stupid table without re-entering all the data.&nbsp;Any suggestions?

marsha_r · Answer

I would export it to Excel from the one project suite and then use these script examples to build the table in the other suite.&nbsp;http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/55435

joe_2 · Answer

Thanks for the response.&nbsp;I tried that. &nbsp;Got it to export to excel just fine, but when I tried to build the table variable, it put the values in the temporary portion of the table, didn't set the defaults. &nbsp;I couldn't figure out how to set the defaults, which meant I would need to either use a persistent variable (and it would have been the only one in the project -- I don't like exceptions.) or I'd need to re-fill it from the excel file each run.&nbsp;This is what I was doing a while back,&nbsp;and I found external data storages to be unreliable and hard to work with.&nbsp;What I ended up doing was rewriting the little subroutine I had made that exports it to the&nbsp;text file&nbsp;so that it would save a column of values instead of a comma delimited string. &nbsp;Then I used the data generator's 'values from a set' to import the values from the text file one column at a time.&nbsp;Clunky and roundabout, or what I like to call sledge-hammer programming.Figuring it out probably took about as long as re-typing the whole table would have.But I finally had the default values set in the new project suite variable, like I wanted, without having to re-enter all the data.And now I know how to move a variable between suites, in case I ever need to do it again.&nbsp;

marsha_r · Answer

You might consider putting the data in an external file instead of a variable. &nbsp;Then you could just copy it around wherever you need it.

joe_2 · Answer

Yeah, when I was first learning how to use TestComplete, I made heavy use of external data storages.But I found they were somewhat unreliable. &nbsp;Occasionally a test would fail for inability to open a file, for one reason or another.Usually because the file in question had been moved by someone else...So I did away with them in my projects. &nbsp;Just use table variables now, and that's generally not a problem, except I started a new suite and needed a few of the old tables in it.&nbsp;What I wish is that SmartBear would make the project variables and suite variables copy&nbsp;and paste-able.Just right click a suite variable and copy it, then paste it into the other suite.&nbsp;Now I'd find that useful.

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