Using workflow variables

The following video link demonstrates how you can create a workflow with parameters set for the workflow but still used in the report generation:

http://youtu.be/RHvVuHsvf0U

Basically, the recipe is to create a workflow variable with a name and type you want to use in the report. This workflow variable will appear in the report designer as a report parameter.

If you use the workflow variable in the workflow in a way that can change the data passed to the report generating engine (in the example, the data was filtered according its value), you can use this variable as a report parameter and generate the report with the updated data.

In the example, it is also demonstrated that you can pass another table to the report generator, ...

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