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Optional Parameters/Inputs

Anonymous
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‎16-03-18 07:18 AM

Hi All, This is my first time posting on this forum and I'm still very new to BluePrism, so please forgive me if this is a stupid question :p The novice way in which I'm handling optional parameters is €” when using inputs, the inputs' corresponding data items are set to an initial value of "UNUSED_PARAMETER".  I then check if that has been overwritten, if so, then utilising the provided data.  I noted that in another forum thread, people recommended just leaving the string blank, and then doing a string comparison to check for an empty string, but this isn't viable for myself as an empty string is an acceptable/valid input in many scenarios. Is there a smarter or more elegant way of going by this? Thanks for your time :) Regards, Irwin
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John__Carter
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‎16-03-18 02:34 PM

Hi Irwin, welcome. There's no set way of handling an optional input, and your 'unused' keyword could work, provided everyone knew that was the standard.
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