Setting a variable with a constant value

Setting a variable with a constant value is really simple. The following instructions explain to you how to do it:

  1. Create a Job and add a START entry.
  2. From the General category of entries, add Set variables... Job entry. Create a hop from the START entry toward this one.
  1. Double-click on the Set variables... entry and fill the lower grid as shown:
Setting variables with fixed values
  1. Close the window.

Once the Set variables... entry is executed, the variable or variables defined are ready to be used in any of the entries that follow it.

As you can see in the preceding screenshot, when you define ...

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