Page History

...

The icon invokes the list editor that is used to compile a list of values from which a user can select from when adding an order to the workflow.

...

Node Arguments are typically used in a situation when the same job occurs more than once in a workflow. The basic assumption is that the job will make use of the same variables that which should carry different values at each node in which the job is used.

...

• The job script can append a variable name-value pair to a temporary file indicated with the $JS7_RETURN_VALUES environment variable.
• The JS7 Agent will pick up the temporary file after execution of the shell job and use the file's entries to create new order variables for subsequent instructions and jobs in the workflow.
• This mechanism is used to create new order variables from Shell Jobs. It cannot be used to modify existing order variables. Shell jobs should always should create new order variables to pass values to subsequent instructions and jobs.

...

• Both examples assign a value to an environment variable SOME_VARIABLE that is local to the job.
• The name/value pair myVar=.... is appended to the temporary file indicated by the JS7_RETURN_VALUES environment variable.
  • This assignment makes use of the value stored with in the SOME_VARIABLE environment variable.
  • This assignment could also use a constant value instead of using SOME_VARIABLE.

...