Variable Picker

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Introduction The variable picker is available to use in most business process nodes and their fields, this includes: Human Tasks Custom Expressions following Decision nodes Integration Calls Automated Tasks Authorisations The variable picker allows for the injecting or overwriting of variable values into node fields.

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Using the Variable Picker

It is possible to manually insert variables into node fields and this is covered in the Request Variables section, here we are focusing on the use of the variable picker tool.

The Variable picker can be opened in one of two ways:

• In most fields in business process nodes the icon will be present and clicking on the icon will open the variable picker.
• Select ctrl or cmd and left mouse click, this will also open the variable picker

The variables which are available to use will be governed by which nodes precede the node you want to use the variable picker on in your business process, and therefore what information (variables) are available. If i wanted to use a request variable such as customer in a node, then i would need to have preceded my process flow with an Automated Tasks > Requests > Get Request Information > Request Details.