Starting with Filter Forge 12 filter authors can package component groups into custom-made snippets that behave like built-in components, and reuse them in other filters, on a different computer, or share them with other Filter Forge users. To create a snippet, right-click a Group (regular components can't turn into snippets) and select the Save As Snippet menu item.
Adding a snippet back into Filter Editor is like adding a regular component: double-click or drag it from the Snippets category on the Components bar, or select it from the right-click Components menu:
Managing and sharing snippets
Every snippet is stored in a separate XML file for the ease of sharing. You can locate your snippets in the My Snippets folder – right-click a snippet and select Locate File to show the snippet storage folder in Windows Explorer or macOS Finder. Feel free to share your snippets with other users, regardless of whether they have Windows or Mac.
If someone sends you a snippet file you can double-click it to import the snippet into Filter Forge – exactly the way you import custom filters. One more thing to note: you can't load snippets made in a newer Filter Forge version into an older one. For instance, you can't make snippets in Filter Forge 13 and load them into version 12.
