Field help (AWAVARCTX)

This table contains expressions evaluated when the Workflow is triggered. These variables :

• are stored in the Workflow history (VALCTX1 to VALCTX15 variables).
• can be used within the signature context (CTX(1) to CTX(15) variable table) associated with the source event, or to a Workflow event following the signature.

These variables are of interest because they make it possible to transmit information which is not located in the tables of origin of the triggering context, and which, as a consequence, is not automatically transmitted from an event upon signature or when the next event occurs. As a matter of fact, the object tables, or the tables of the allocation rules, are automatically transmitted; on the other hand, the following are not trransmitted :

• global variables (for instance, the GUSER, GFONCTION, GABREV, CLEOBJ variables, which respectively define the current user, the current function, the object code and the current key upon triggering an object Workflow).
• variables linked to the on-line screens
• expressions such as date$, time$... which qualify the triggering context

These are the types of variables which it is interesting to transmit via the context. Yet, it is also interesting to define in the context variables otherwise transmitted within the context, simply to be able to display them in the Workflow monitor.