To associate output variables with actions:Using output variables, you can incorporate quality results values into the action details of the following alert actions: Send an electronic mail notification, Execute a SQL script, and Execute an operating system script (see: Defining Collection Element Alert Actions), and the Launch a Workflow user-defined action. Output variables can also be used to incorporate quality results values into the action details of Assign a Value actions.
Additional Information: The above listed Alert actions can be defined for both collection elements and collection plan elements, but Assign a Value actions can only be defined for collection plan elements.
For example, you can use an output variable token (e.g. &DIAMETER) to represent numeric diameter values (e.g. 45 inches), so that these values can be included in the details (text) of a Send an electronic mail notification alert action.
Output variable tokens are defined by entering an ampersand (&) followed by a token name (for example, &ITEM_NUMBER) that represents a results value.
Include an output variable token as you define your Alert, Assign a Value, and Launch a Workflow actions. See: Defining Collection Element Alert Actions, Defining Collection Plan Element Alert Actions, Defining Actions that Assign a Value: User-Defined Formulas, and Defining Launch a Workflow Actions.
The token that you associate with the output variable for the Launch a Workflow action is the Oracle Workflow attribute for that collection element. You must enter the token name exactly as the attribute name is written in the workflow.
To associate output variables with actions:From the Actions:Send Electronic Mail, Actions: SQL Script, Actions:Operating System Script, Assign a Value, or Launch a Workflow windows, choose the Variables button. The Output Variables window appears.
Enter the Token Name.
Do not enter the ampersand (&). For example if you included an &ITEM_NUMBER output variable token in the Message Text field of the Actions: Send Electronic Mail window, you would enter ITEM_NUMBER as the token name.
Attention: If you are creating a Launch a Workflow output variable, the token must be entered exactly the same as the workflow attribute's internal name is written or the workflow will not launch.
Select the collection element to associate with the token name.
You can associate token names with any collection element, including common collection plan elements. For example, you can associate the Item collection element with the &ITEM_NUMBER token name as described above.
Save your work.
Choose OK to close the Output Variables window.