DocsData item
The properties dialog for the data item allows you to change various constrains for the data that is contained within it.
- Enter a name – The name that you enter identifies the data item that will display on the process diagram. Names of data items may not contain a full stop character ("."), quotation marks ("), or any square brackets ("[" or "]").
- Enter a description – The additional description field allows a lengthier narrative to be entered.
- Enter a data type – The data type can be one of the Blue Prism data types.
- Enter an initial value – The initial value of the data item is used to set the data item at the beginning of process execution.
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Exposure – Describes the extent of the data item's visibility outside the running session.
It can have one of the following four settings:
- None – The data item is restricted to the current session.
- Statistic – The data item's value is stored in the database for reporting.
- Environment – The data item takes the value of the corresponding environment data item from System Manager. Note that this setting will limit the data item such that it cannot be changed within the current session.
- Session – The data item can be viewed and updated from Control Room.
- Current value – Displays the value stored in the data item at that moment, so will only contain something when the process is being debugged.
- Visibility – Choose whether this data item will be visible on pages in the process other than the current one. This can come in very handy if you have a lot of data items that are only related to the current page and you don't want them to be used on other pages. The data items will be grayed out in the data explorer.
- Initialisation – Choose whether to reset the data item to its initial value whenever the page runs.
