Understanding work space areas
Work space areas provide an area of temporary working storage for data
values.
Five work space areas are provided for each of the following data types:
- Amount
- General
- Date
- Period.
Work space areas are used most commonly with the CALCULATE action statement, where a data value is SET to a work space slot.
There are 20 General Workspaces and also 20 Amount Workspaces. A maximum of 50 characters can be stored in each General Workspace.
For example, if you want to calculate the due date for a transaction by adding 30 days to the transaction date you must first copy the transaction date into a work space area.
| Command | Value 1 | Operator | Value 2 |
| SET | Date Work Space 1 | = | Transaction Date |
| CALCULATE | Date Work Space 1 | + | 30 |
| SET | Due Date | = | Date Work Space 1 |
Note:
The work space areas are shared by all of the business rules that are active for a system function. This enables work space area values to be passed from one rule set to another within the same, or different, event profiles.