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Using Variables throughout your bot is something an advanced bot can't do without! On the Bot Settings > Variables  section you can add them, name them and connect to a step in your bot or even a custom JavaScript function! Easy as that!

Please note that the Variables are case-sensitive and thus need to be written exactly the same!

Choosing the right Variable type

• Name your variable and then selectthe desired variable type and set its settings:
  • Step variable type: Gets the value from the answer of the chosen step:
  • String variable type:
    • Gets the value from the entered static string (for example for storing often used phrases like addresses or company names)

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  • Script variable type:

    • Gets the value from the provided javascript function, which can optionally access other variables allowing greater flexibility.

    • In this example custom asynchronous function provides a value for the variable script2:

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    • If you need to use other variable's value in your script variable function, use variables argument.

    • In this example script variable named script3 uses value of the other variable named one:

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    • If you need the textual value of the variable, not the actual value, you can use variables.<name>.text syntax

    • Please note that in case your script variable needs to use another script variable in order to calculate the result, you need to call the value with a callback.

    • In this example script variable named script uses the value of another variable named script3 to calculate the result:

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    • If you need to get values from more than one script variables in order to perform the calculation, you can make use of the quriobot.async utility:

    • function(callback, variables)  {
      quriobot.async.mapValuesSeries({
            script3: variables.script3.value, 
            script4: variables.script4.value
      }, function(getValue, key, cb) {
          getValue(function (res) { 
              cb(null, res);
          }, variables)
      }, function(err, results) {
          callback(results.script3 + results.script4)
      });
      }

      
      

Important note: Please keep in mind that the script-function scope is limited to it's arguments plus the following utility functions:

• quriobot.ajax(url, callback, data, headers, options) - perform http requests (GET if no dataparameter is passed)
  • url - request URL
  • data - data to send as a request body (when set, the request method is set to POST
  • headers - headers object to apply as request headers
  • options  - options object which currently supports:
    • method - request method
    • withCredentials - is a Boolean that indicates whether or not cross-site Access-Control requests should be made using credentials such as cookies, authorization headers or TLS client certificates. Setting withCredentials has no effect on same-site requests.
• quriobot.dotObject - imported dot-object package
• quriobot.URL - imported url-parse package
• quriobot.flatten - imported flat package
• quriobot.mustache - imported mustache package
• quriobot.moment - imported moment package
• quriobot.numeral - imported numeral package
• quriobot.async - imported async package
• quriobot.store- storage object for saving persistent values between the visits and pages, if needed:
  • quriobot.store.get(key: string) - get value by key
  • quriobot.store.set(key, value, [expires]) - set value by the key, optional expires parameter is in seconds
• quriobot.Cookies - imported js-cookiespackage:

  • Create a cookie, valid across the entire site:

    quriobot.Cookies.set('name', 'value')

    Create a cookie that expires 7 days from now, valid across the entire site:

    quriobot.Cookies.set('name', 'value', { expires: 7 })

    Create an expiring cookie, valid to the path of the current page:

    quriobot.Cookies.set('name', 'value', { expires: 7, path: '' })

    Read cookie:

    quriobot.Cookies.get('name') // => 'value'
    quriobot.Cookies.get('nothing') // => undefined

Where can you use these Variables? Almost everywhere!

• Use them in your Chat Messages:
• Use them as parameters in your redirect URL:
• Use them within your Script messages or HTML fields:
• Use them in Action responses to easily connect the bot other services, such as your CRM, Slack,  MailChimp newsletter signup or email automation to name just a few examples! 

How can I store the variable value along with the chat transcript, or use it in the jump  logic?

It is  possible to store the variable value for  the chat transcript and/or the jump logic by adding a Goto step with that variable's in the value setting:

And then you can use it in the jump logic:

For every bot step, there's a corresponding system variable which uses the code name bot step setting:

so that, for example, if you have a bot step with the code name location_address, you can refer to its value as {{location_address}}

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