Global variables or share info among forms

[xren]

Hi,

sometimes, I will need to save some information in the session that can be shared by all the forms in that session.

How can this be done?

Thanks,
Xiaoli

[asperion]

You can use the setsessionvariable / getsessionvariable functions to pass data between forms in each session.

For security, you may wish to encrypt the values you store in the session variables.

[xren]

Thank you!

[xren]

What is the corresponding usage in javascript?

Thanks,
Xiaoli

[Steve]

Hi,

The session methods can be found in client.getFormSession();

So to set a form session attribute in JavaScript:

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client.getFormSession().setFormSessionAttribute("myAttribute", "Hello");

Jon mentioned encryption. If you wanted to encrypt your data, you will need to use encryption services:

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//encrypt
var encrypted = EncryptionServices.encrypt("Hello");
//decrypt
var decrypted = EncryptionServices.decrypt(encrypted);

Steve

[xren]

What is the benefit of encrypting? I think the session object is only available at the server side. It won't travel between browser and server.
Is my understanding correct?

Thanks,
Xiaoli

[Jon]

Yes, that's correct.