Step Type: Assign Variables

The Assign Variables step creates new procedure variables or reassigns values to existing ones. This is useful for intermediate calculations, setting up values for later steps, or transforming data between steps.

When to Use

• To compute a value from previous step outputs and store it for later use
• To create new variables based on formula expressions
• To update existing variable values partway through a procedure
• To set up conditional values based on prior execution results

Configuration

Modifying Existing Variables

You can reassign values to variables that already exist in the procedure scope:

Setting	Description
Variable	The existing procedure variable to update
Value / Formula	The new value or expression to assign

Creating New Variables

You can also create new variables as output:

Setting	Description
Variable name	Name for the new variable
Data type	The variable’s data type (String, Integer, List, Dictionary, etc.)
Value / Formula	The initial value or expression

How It Works

1. The step evaluates each variable assignment in order
2. For existing variables, the current value is replaced with the new value
3. For new variables, they are added to the procedure’s variable scope
4. All assigned variables are immediately available to subsequent steps

Example

After an Extract Records step that produces a record_list, you might use Assign Variables to:

• Count the records: len(record_list)
• Extract a specific value: record_list[0]['sys_id']
• Build a filtered list: [r for r in record_list if r['active'] == 'true']