Outputs

You can write values to ArchestrA attributes whenever a certain step becomes active or before Sequencer jumps to the next or another step.

Note: To write to an ArchestrA attribute you must first map it to an Alias. For specifics, see About Sequencer object aliases.

Every step of the Step Program allows you to associate the step entry and/or the step exit with values that are written to the Aliases. These values form an output matrix.

An output value can be one of two types:

• literal value (number, string, date time, elapsed time or Boolean)

• value of another Alias (referencing another ArchestrA attribute)

Empty cells in the matrix mean that no write to the the associated Alias takes place.

Literal Values

You can configure a step to write literal values to attributes either when a step becomes active or after the step is triggered, either by the step condition or the jump condition. Some examples of literal values are 3.141, 17, "Start", and "Pause".

Note: Literal values that are either string, date time, or elapsed time data type must be enclosed by double quotes to be recognized as such. If they are not enclosed by double quotes they are considered to be Aliases. You can embed double quotes in literal strings without any escape character. For example: "Joe said "Hello"". Most special characters are accepted within double quotation marks, except for tabs and carriage returns.

Aliases

You can configure a step to write the value of another attribute to the output. In this case the output causes the step program to pass the value of one attribute to another attribute. This applies to any Alias you have defined in your Step Program.