Variables store information - a value - that you can access at any time. These values can be numerical, text - strings of characters, or a value of true or false.

You can use variables in a variety of ways. Because you can interchange a variable with many different values (including a number, a character string, a logical True/False value or a list), you can control many aspects of your piece by integrating variables and variable expressions into the flowline.

Authorware provides 170 system variables in addition to custom variables. System variables are already integrated into Authorware. You can create custom variables for those instances when Authorware does not have a system variable defined for the data value that you want to store.

Variable keep track of a wide range of information about a piece iincluding information about decsion structures, files, frameworks, graphics, videos, icons, interactions, dates, and time. Authorware continually updates these system variables so that you can access them at any time to get the latest information.

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