Setting Variable Access

The effective visibility and writability of each variable displayed on the Inbox form is determined by:

  • What type of action generated the message (Notify or Prompt)
  • The (optional) variable access level as specified on the Event Action form for the action itself and/or on the Event Variable Groups form for the event handler’s initial state and/or on the Event Action Notify or Event Action Prompt form for the action with regard to the payload status of the property that corresponds to the variable, when the handler is associated with an IDO event.

For Notify type messages, the default for variable access is Read-Only. You can use the variable access options to override this to Hidden for each variable.

For Prompt type messages, the default for variable access is Writable. You can use the variable access options to override this to Hidden, Read-Only, or Mandatory for each variable.

To change the value of a variable that may appear with a message in the Inbox form, you can do any of these actions:

  • Specify the data by using the Variables tab on the Inbox form as part of a response to a Prompt action.
  • Use a Set Values event action with the function syntax: SETVARVALUES(VariableName=expression).

  • Use any of various event actions that can set a variable on output by using the function syntax: RV(VariableName).