To add a new variable using the available from the
toolbar menu:
Procedure
- Open a mapping pane of an activity.
- Click a node in the mapping pane.
- Select an active Map toolbar menu
option
The "Add Variables" dialog box is displayed.
- Click New. The "Create New Variables
Step 1 of 2" dialog box is displayed.
- Select a data type or schema to base the new variable:
- For a variable based on a primitive data type:
- Scroll to the bottom of the "Create New Variables Step 1 of
2" dialog box.
- Select a primitive data type from the Primitive Types folder.
- Click Next.
- For a variable based on a schema:
- Optional: To search
for a node by name, click Find.
- From the schema, select a node to be the root of the new variable.
- Click Next.
- Enter a name for the new variable and click Finish. The new variable is added to Variables toolbox,
and the schema is displayed in the Schema of pane
on the Variables tab. The new variable is also
added to the mapping pane.
Attention: Do not create
a variable in the following format:
__variableName__.
Variable names that start with two underscore characters (_) and ends
with two underscore characters (_) are not supported. If an orchestration
contains variable names using this format,
the
orchestration fails to validate.