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Renaming a variable
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Right-click on the variable name in the Configuration Components pane.
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Click Rename.
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Type in the new name of the variable, then press Enter on your keyboard.
Note: While renaming a variable will correctly rename all references to it in task properties or
wherever else it is used in a task, it will not change the references in any script within a Run
Script task.
Setting a variable value within a process
You can set the value of a variable within your process in two ways:
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Use the Set Job Info and Variable action task. See "Set Job Infos and Variables" on page400.
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You can use Scripts. See the chapter "Using Scripts" on page117.
Tip: Variables may be used as variable properties in Task Properties (see "Variable task prop-
erties" below).
Variable task properties
When you edit tasks, you may notice that some of the properties that you can modify have a red (or
more precisely, a maroon) title. This means that the property can be dynamically determined whenever
your process runs, that is to say it will not remain static. This can be extremely useful when, for
example, you want to determine how many copies you will print out depending on your data, or what
document will be used in the printout depending on the department it came from.
Variable properties may include:
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Static data.
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System variables. See "System variables" on page240.
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Local and Global Variables. See "Local variables" on page242.
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Job Infos. See "Job Info variables" on page239.
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Data and Metadata Selections. See "Data selections" on page49.
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Printer Control Characters. See "Shared printer queue properties" on page95. These are nor-
mally only used in printer outputs.
Variable properties can also be used in these special locations:
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