System Variables

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The System Variables control enables system variables to be displayed on an eForm or used in a conditional TAG. Selecting the Show System Variable menu item will insert a form TAG that will be substituted with the appropriate system variable.

The system variable will be replaced by the actual value when the form is displayed to the user. For example, this can be used to return information about the workflow process, the current user, Meta Data, and many other types of information.

The properties dialog box for the System variables control has a SysVar property that you can use to manually type the System Variable you wish to display. Alternatively, there are many useful system variables that you can select from dropdown lists in the dialog box without having to know the "curly brackets" syntax. When you pick a System variable from a dropdown list in the dialog box, Process Director will write the basic syntax for the System variable into the SysVar property box for you, after which you can edit the SysVar property as desired.

The following System Variables can be selected from dropdown lists in the properties dialog box without having to write the system variables manually.

DROPDOWN	SYSTEM VARIABLE
Date/Time	Current Date/Time
	Current Date
	Current Time
Current User Attached Object Information Object Information Categories and Attributes Server Settings	Current User
	Current User Groups
	Number of Workflow Objects
	Workflow Objects
	Number of Timeline Objects
	Timeline Objects
	Number of eForm Objects
	eForm Objects
	Form Field
	Object name
	Object Description
	Object Create Date
	Object Create User
	Object version
	Categories
	Attributes
	Sequence Number
Misc	Current Row Number
	Localized String
	Business Rule
Process Users	Process Initiator
	Task Active Users
	Active Users in Workflow Step
Process	Users in Workflow Step
	Active users in Timeline Activity
	Users in Timeline Activity
	Process Name
	Workflow Definition Name
	Timeline Definition Name
	Process Priority
	Process Start Date
	Process Stop Date
	Process Status
	Process Termination Reason
	Workflow Running Step Name
	Timeline Running Activity Name
	Process Running Task
	Task Name
	Task Instructions
	Task Due Date
	Task Priority
	Task Start Date
	Step Status
	Step Termination Reason
	Step Start Date
	Step Stop Date
	Step Due Date
	Activity Status
	Activity Termination Reason
	Activity Start Date
	Activity Stop Date
	Activity Due Date

Refer to the System Variables Reference Guide documentation for a list of all the existing System Variables, their available formats and options, and examples of the proper syntax to invoke them.