Output Variable

ActiveVOS Designer User’s Guide

Output Variable

The output from a receive, invoke (for a request-response operation) or people activity (containing a task) may require that data is mapped to a process variable.

Assignment Type

Single Variable. Select a variable from the list to put the output of the invoke or people activity into that variable. The variable must be of the operation's output message type, or, if the operation reply has only one part, the variable's type may be the element type of the one part. Select an existing process variable or select New Variable.
Parts To Variables. Select Parts To Variables if you want each reply message part to map to a different variable. For details, see From Part to Variable.
XPaths. Select XPaths if you want to use a table to map from data within existing variables to the contents of the input message. The table uses XPath expressions, which allow you to select nodes from a variable to assign to the input variable as well as compute values (strings, numbers, or Boolean values) from the content of variable. See Adding XPaths in the Input Variable topic.

Viewing Container Variables

Note that if you use XPaths, a container variable is added to the Process Variables view, called result. Similarly, if you add are copying attachments to the input variable, you will see the container variable, attachmentCopyResult. These variables are hidden by default since they are used only temporarily at runtime to process parts of a full variable. Select Show Internal Variables to make them visible.