[ENHANCEMENT] Mutually Exclusive Profile Selection #648

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1. MarvKler

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   on Aug 28, 2026
2. d-biehl commented on Oct 19, 2026

   

   d-biehl

   on Oct 19, 2026

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   Thanks for the idea. A few things to consider:

   • Profiles are defined in robot.toml, which the command line, VS Code and PyCharm all read. So "mutually exclusive" would have to be a new profile setting that all of them respect, including robotcode -p A -p B on the command line, not just the picker in VS Code. Right now, selecting both simply applies both, and the one applied later wins where they set the same thing.
   • VS Code's selection list can't disable single entries. The closest would be that checking a profile unchecks the ones it excludes.

   Today you can get close with inherits: keep the building blocks hidden (profiles whose names start with _ don't show up in the list) and define one profile per combination you actually use:

   [profiles._firefox]
   extend-variables = { BROWSER = "firefox" }
   
   [profiles._chrome]
   extend-variables = { BROWSER = "chrome" }
   
   [profiles._staging]
   extend-variables = { URL = "https://staging.example.com" }
   
   [profiles.staging-firefox]
   inherits = ["_staging", "_firefox"]
   
   [profiles.staging-chrome]
   inherits = ["_staging", "_chrome"]

   Use extend-variables in the building blocks; with variables, the second one would replace the first one's variables instead of adding to them.

   I'll keep this open as an idea, but I can't promise when I'll get to it.