To give users of the PCI flexibility you may want to use variables in certain dialog fields instead of fixed values. Where only one or two fields are variable this may be preferable to displaying the whole dialog.
Any numeric entry field can be filled with a user-defined variable. Simply enter the variable name in the appropriate field, enclosed in square brackets [ ]. For example you may wish to give the user the ability to specify the cut increment for a profile cycle – Use [Finish-Profile-Cut-Increment].
When you use a variable in this way you will be prompted to enter a value. This value will become the default value in the PCI variable input dialog, which is displayed for data input at run-time. All the variables in a PCI are collected together in a single dialog at the beginning.
Each PCI variable must be unique within an individual PCI and for the purposes of automatically created PCIs the names should be self-explanatory in meaning.
Note that if a cycle is to present a full input dialog at run-time there is no point in placing named variables in the input fields.