Concepts of Variable Maps

A variable is a name-value pair in a property set. A variable map is a definition of how to construct a property set in a given situation and of which changes to save.

Each variable has one or more variable sources that define how to retrieve the variable value in a given mode (such as Quote, Order, or Any). The source type of a variable source can be a business object query, the active business component instance, a business service, a profile attribute, a system preference, or a server parameter. A child variable map is another variable map that is executed for each row retrieved by the current variable map and attached as a child property set. A Business Service source can also construct a child property set for each row. The following figure shows example child variable map output (Row1 Attributes - RowA, RowB, RowC; Row2 Attributes - Row1, Row2), in relation to the parent variable map output (RowSet - Row1, Row2, Row3).