Concepts → Variable

About variables

A variable stores data of a specific data type. A variable is mutable. However, certain types of variable in Incorta are immutable within the variable scope of a user session.

Incorta has built-in and user-defined variables.

Built-in system variables

Here are the type of system variables:

• Date system variable
• Miscellaneous system variable
• Query system Variable

User-defined variables

A dashboard developer or schema developer creates a user-defined variables. User-defined variables have different scopes:

• Presentation variable
• Session variable
• Global variable

Presentation variable

For a dashboard, you can create a presentation variable. You can reference a presentation variable in another dashboard filter such as an applied filter. You can also reference a presentation variable in an insight filter such as an individual filter. To learn more, review the following:

• Presentation variable

Session variables

You can create three types of sessions variables:

• External session variable
• Filter expression session variable
• Internal session variable

Global variable

A global variable is available to all users in a given tenant. A global variable can behave as a constant. A global variable also can have a dynamic value. To learn more, review the following:

• Global variable