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Setting and reading variabls in Flows

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Mostafa

The variables in Flows are not practical and useful if you can not set variable's value. Please complete the variable functionality. And how to read variables document is not clear.

July 24, 2023

Christian

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You now have the ability to set variables in Flows with the "Variable Set" action.

Also within Question prompts, you now have the option of assigning the response to a variable.

Mostafa

Christian: thank you Christian. Is they any way to change variable value by Alexa routines? The webhook is not supported by Alexa yet and the IFTTT webhook is a premium feature.

Christian

Mostafa: Yes, to change a variable via a Routine you must:

Create a new Flow with an action of "Variable Set". Select your variable and add the new value.
On that same Flow page, you will see a button labelled "View instructions" for triggering that Flow from an Alexa routine. Follow the instructions.

Now every time that Routine runs, it will trigger that Flow and update the variable.

Mostafa

Christian: You are amazing! Thank you.