| Siebel Loyalty Administration Guide > Setting Up Siebel Loyalty Promotions > Transient Variables > Defining Transient Variables for User-Defined Attributes
 Transient variables for user-defined attributes can be defined like other variables and can be of the type integer, text or date. They can be used in a Promotion-Designer-enabled promotion for subsequent promotions to use as input in criteria or actions. Transient variables for user-defined attributes are not created automatically. You can create them using the following procedure.  To define a transient variable for a user-defined attribute 
Navigate to the Loyalty Program Administration screen.
Drill-down on a program.
Click the Program Level Attributes tab.
Click the Transient Attributes tab.
Click New.
Complete the necessary fields. Some fields are described in the following table.
    |  |  |  
    | Name | Name of the transient variable |  
    | Data Type | Transient variable data type |  
    | Default Value | Default Value |  |