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itself but not to any other process or instance of the process. For example, you could store the current order
IDfor the process, a name or an email. You can have as many local variables as you want in any given
process.
To add a local variable, you can use one of two methods:
l Select the process where you want to add the variable.
l Click on the Home tab of the PReS Workflow Ribbon, then click Local Variable in the Variables
group.
l Right-click on the process in the Configuration Components area, then click on Insert Local
Variable.
Shared tasks
These procedures can be used on both local and global variables.
To delete a variable
l Right-click on the variable name in the Configuration Components Area and click Delete.
To rename a variable:
l Right-click on the variable name in the Configuration Components Area.
l Click Rename
l Type in the new name of the variable, then press Enter on your keyboard.
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. Deleting a variable, on
the other hand, does not delete any reference to it. In both the case where a script refers to a variable and it
is renamed, or in the case of deleting a variable, any task or script that refers to it will cease to function and
will generate an error.
You can set the value of a variable within your process in two ways:
l Use the Set Job Info and Variable action task. See "Set Job Infos and Variables" on page 262.
l You can use Scripts. See the chapter "Using Scripts" on page 75.
Variables may be used as variable properties in variable property boxes (see Variable Properties).