Assign Activities

The Assign activity is a lightweight mapping tool.

Like a map, the Assign properties require that you specify a source and target. Using an Assign, you can:

• Set variable values.
• Add and remove subtrees from complex variables using Graft and Prune.
• Retrieve system variables.
• Perform multiple operations on contexts within a single Assign.
• Arrange the order of execution of assignment operations defined within a single Assign activity.

Assign provides two types of data modification:

• Value-based

  Change to the data is value-based when a specific value is set in the target document. A value can be a literal, context variable, environment variable, or process ID.

• Structure-based

  Change to the data is structure-based when an XPath notation is used to pass a group of values to the target document.

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