Variable Scopes

Each variable exists and has a value assigned to it within one or more scopes. A scope is the environment, or set of conditions, within which the variable and its value are relevant.

• Runtime Scope — The variable is persistent over a single execution of the runbook.

• Incident Scope — The variable is persistent over the lifecycle of an incident associated with a runbook.

The scope is prepended to each variable name automatically whenever the variable is displayed or used outside the Variable Definition Editor. (The prefix is not shown within the Variable Definition Editor, since the variable is edited in a tab for that scope.)