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My userid still isn't automatically populated in the ##UserId## field in data explorer (I've tried updating my avatar etc), so it would be handy if my userid was stored in a cookie and populated automatically.
But it got me thinking, why aren't all query variables saved as cookies and automatically populated into fields?
Does this sound like a good idea?
My userid still isn't automatically populated in the
##UserId##field
Yeah, the values for EmailHash have been removed for privacy reasons, and this is a prerequisite for that code to work. I've been meaning to make some adjustments to address this but have been a bit tied up; hopefully it's something I can get to sometime this week, if not later this evening.
To your request though, there's no guarantee that parameters that have similar names are used for similar purposes*, so I'm not sure that there's a lot of benefit to this. I can see some use cases where it might make sense, but doing this across the board doesn't seem that useful to me.
Somewhat tangental to your concern, but you can set default values for query parameters, which can be helpful in some cases.
*obviously that assumption was being made with the UserId field, but that seemed safe since the behaviour was documented
