Data item

The properties dialog for the data item allows you to change various constrains for the data that is contained within it.

• Name – The name that you enter identifies the data item that will display on the process diagram. Names of data items must not contain a full stop character ("."), quotation marks ("), or any square brackets ("[" or "]").
• Description – The additional description field allows a more detailed description to be entered.
• Data Type – The data type can be one of the Blue Prism data types.
• Initial Value – The initial value of the data item is used to populate the data item at the beginning of process execution.

• 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 prevent the data item from being 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, this will be populated 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 by selecting the Hide from other pages in the process checkbox. This is useful 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 by selecting the Reset to Initial Value whenever this page runs checkbox.