WowAce

Currently when running multiple accounts (such as when multiboxing) it's not possible to transfer the settings between characters easily.

At present the only apparent way to copy the settings of one character into another account, without overwriting the settings of all the other characters on that account (by simply copying the whole Bartender4.lua file over), is to go through the file by hand and copy/paste the relevant sections into the file in another account branch. Due to the structure of the file this is a longwinded and tedious process, prone to errors.

I'm guessing addons don't have access to other account branches in the WTF folder for security reasons, or it would already be possible to copy profiles between accounts.

The 2 obvious solutions would be:

1. If the Bartender4.lua files were per character it would be possible to copy/paste the files between characters in different account branches, as can be done for most other addons.

2. If the sections were seperated by character in the file, instead of by bar, it would be easier to copy/paste them into another file (eg. X-Perl also has per account settings, but the settings are separated by character in the file).

I assume both these solutions would cause problems with the current profile copying system though.

Alternatively, would it be possible to either:

1. Have an export button to create a per-character settings file in the character's folder (eg. Bartender4-charname.lua), which can be copied into another account branch and then either be imported through the addon interface, or when the game is started be merged into the per-account settings and the file deleted.

2. Have BT4 able to transfer a character's settings to another instance of WoW through a chat channel (and possibly store them into a temporary template character there).

This is out of scope for Bartender4.

The way modules are used to logically split the data does not make it easy to copy/paste data between files, i understand this, but its nothing i can change in Bartender.

Yeah, we really need this. There's got to be a way...