Global Variables

Updated on 23 Aug 2024
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General

Global variables allow you to specify Expressions which can be accessed from any other expression in Mail & Deploy.

Example: You can create a global variable that holds the root directory path to save report documents to. Every Save Content To File System Action can access that global variable in order to save reports in that directory (or a sub-directory thereof). If the directory changes you only need to change it once in the global variable.

Properties

Every global variable has the following properties:

Name	Description
Name	The name of the global variable.
Value	An Expressions that returns the value of the global variable. This expression must not contain Placeholders except for Global Variable Value Placeholders referencing other global variables; however you need to make sure that there are no circular references between global variable values.

Managing Global Variables

There are two ways to manage global variables:

Management Service

You can connect to the Management Service of Mail & Deploy and click the Variables item in the main menu. This will provide you with a list of all global variables; you can edit or delete existing global variables or create new ones.

Report Designer

You can also edit global variables from the Report Designer by clicking the button in the main toolbar: