User-defined custom variables, for use in recipes

I would like to be able to declare my own variables for use within a recipe. For instance, for a recipe which has an email output, I'd like to declare Subject and Body text variables early in the recipe. Depending on the results of various *IF* statements in the recipe, I'd push various content into these variables as the recipe ran. Then at the end of the recipe, I would compose the email using these "built up" variables.

I can think of lots of other uses of custom variables as well.

Patricia - the list is a useful tool but I've found it to be somewhat limiting when you jump from loop to loop. You can't use the same List from your first loop in your second loop, and you have to define a new one. 

A "variable" that you could set should act like a callable recipe but with no actions. That might be a possible intermediate solution. Your input and response schema would just be the same thing. The only action being the response which maps all the fields over. 

Hi jheuer, I would like to quickly check with you: which email provider are you using? Are you using gmail?

Hi jheuer. Thank you for reaching out. I will talk to my collleague from the Technical Team to find out more about the declaration of custom variables in a recipe. 

Meanwhile, the use case that you have described can be achieved using the formula mode in Workato. In the Subject or Message field in the Send email action (under the Workato Email App), you can use the formula mode to combine data pills from the outputs of previous steps. You can also process some data modification to modify the data inputs to suit the content that you would like to include in the email. Below is a screenshot of an example:

You can find out more about the formula mode here: https://support.workato.com/support/solutions/articles/1000142742-what-is-formula-mode-and-how-to-use-it-

Hope this helps!