Variables
In-app variables.
Page contents:
List variables in a Sense app
The command below lists certain variables (named Ctrl-Q variable 1, TimestampFormat, var1 and vVar1) in apps matching appId a3e0f5d2-000a-464f-998d-33d333b175d7 and app tags Ctrl-Q variable 1 and Ctrl-Q variable 2.
If the --variable option is not included all variables will be included in the table.
Use --output-format json to get the results as JSON.
.\ctrl-q.exe variable-get `
--host pro2-win1.lab.ptarmiganlabs.net `
--qrs-port 4242 `
--auth-user-dir LAB `
--auth-user-id goran `
--app-id a3e0f5d2-000a-464f-998d-33d333b175d7 `
--app-tag 'Ctrl-Q variable 1' 'Ctrl-Q variable 2' `
--id-type name `
--variable 'Ctrl-Q variable 1' 'TimestampFormat' 'var1' 'vVar1' `
--output-format table
2024-03-12T08:44:59.101Z info: -----------------------------------------------------------
2024-03-12T08:44:59.101Z info: | Ctrl-Q
2024-03-12T08:44:59.101Z info: |
2024-03-12T08:44:59.101Z info: | Version : 3.16.0
2024-03-12T08:44:59.101Z info: | Log level : info
2024-03-12T08:44:59.101Z info: |
2024-03-12T08:44:59.101Z info: | Command : variable-get
2024-03-12T08:44:59.101Z info: | : get variable definitions in one or more apps
2024-03-12T08:44:59.101Z info: |
2024-03-12T08:44:59.101Z info: | Run Ctrl-Q with the '--help' option to see a list of all available options for this command.
2024-03-12T08:44:59.101Z info: |
2024-03-12T08:44:59.101Z info: | https://github.com/ptarmiganlabs/ctrl-q
2024-03-12T08:44:59.101Z info: ----------------------------------------------------------
2024-03-12T08:44:59.101Z info:
2024-03-12T08:44:59.258Z info: Found 5 apps to process
2024-03-12T08:44:59.398Z info: Getting variables from app f16fa63d-54c7-4c8d-81f1-2d084d46bcfe, "Minecraft Metrics"
2024-03-12T08:44:59.743Z info: Getting variables from app e377d9b5-231a-4795-800f-3649983647dd, "LDAP lab"
2024-03-12T08:45:00.164Z info: Getting variables from app a3e0f5d2-000a-464f-998d-33d333b175d7, "Sheet thumbnails demo app"
2024-03-12T08:45:00.805Z info: Getting variables from app d1ace221-b80e-4754-98ea-3d0a9ebc9632, "Residential energy analysis"
2024-03-12T08:45:01.258Z info: Getting variables from app c840670c-7178-4a5e-8409-ba2da69127e2, "Meetup.com"
2024-03-12T08:45:01.851Z info:
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ In-app variables │
├──────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────┬───────────────────┬──────────┬───────────────────────────┬─────────────┬───────────────────┬──────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┬────────────────────┬──────┬───────┬───────────────────────────────┬─────────────────┤
│ App ID │ App name │ Variable ID │ Variable name │ Description │ Type │ Definition │ Is reserved │ Is script created │ Created date │ Modified date │ Engine object type │ Size │ Title │ Privileges │ Tags │
├──────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼───────┼───────────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ f16fa63d-54c7-4c8d-81f1-2d084d46bcfe │ Minecraft Metrics │ cd5eb1a8-bd19-42f6-8d58-55905297572b │ TimestampFormat │ │ variable │ M/D/YYYY h:mm:ss[.fff] TT │ true │ true │ │ │ │ │ │ read,update,delete │ │
├──────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼───────┼───────────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ e377d9b5-231a-4795-800f-3649983647dd │ LDAP lab │ c1a99293-51d0-426b-bdb7-a43b2d896dc9 │ TimestampFormat │ │ variable │ M/D/YYYY h:mm:ss[.fff] TT │ true │ true │ │ │ │ │ │ read,update,delete │ │
├──────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼───────┼───────────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ a3e0f5d2-000a-464f-998d-33d333b175d7 │ Sheet thumbnails demo app │ 0155e35e-8054-4896-9dd7-d947405f3a90 │ vVar1 │ vVar1 description │ variable │ ='abc' & '123' │ │ │ 2021-06-03T22:04:52.283Z │ 2023-10-31T06:12:00.194Z │ │ -1 │ │ read,update,delete,exportdata │ varTag1,varTag2 │
├──────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼───────┼───────────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ a3e0f5d2-000a-464f-998d-33d333b175d7 │ Sheet thumbnails demo app │ 8b9ed9b7-7db9-420f-8c00-308e19befd54 │ TimestampFormat │ │ variable │ M/D/YYYY h:mm:ss[.fff] TT │ true │ true │ │ │ │ │ │ read,update,delete │ │
├──────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼───────┼───────────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ a3e0f5d2-000a-464f-998d-33d333b175d7 │ Sheet thumbnails demo app │ 548828d1-4e83-4e57-a0ed-b94119fc46ad │ var1 │ │ variable │ This is variable 1 │ │ true │ │ │ │ │ │ read,update,delete │ │
├──────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼───────┼───────────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ d1ace221-b80e-4754-98ea-3d0a9ebc9632 │ Residential energy analysis │ 185378fa-4835-47db-b142-ecffb4ffe951 │ TimestampFormat │ │ variable │ M/D/YYYY h:mm:ss[.fff] TT │ true │ true │ │ │ │ │ │ read,update,delete │ │
├──────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼───────┼───────────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ c840670c-7178-4a5e-8409-ba2da69127e2 │ Meetup.com │ 3773a685-d3ce-453f-9e7a-d88514207dbe │ TimestampFormat │ │ variable │ M/D/YYYY h:mm:ss[.fff] TT │ true │ true │ │ │ │ │ │ read,update,delete │ │
└──────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────┴───────────────────┴──────────┴───────────────────────────┴─────────────┴───────────────────┴──────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┴────────────────────┴──────┴───────┴───────────────────────────────┴─────────────────┘
Delete variables in a Sense app
There are three kinds of variables in Sense:
- Variables created in the load script using
letorsetstatements. These variables will get the property “Is script created” set totruein the output table created by Ctrl-Q. - Variables created in the Sense app development UI. These will have a blank (=undefined) value in “Is script created”.
- Protected variables of different kinds, these have special meanings in the load script. Examples include system variables, error variables and Number interpretation variables.
These have the property “Is reserved” set totruein the variable table created by Ctrl-Q’svariable-getcommand.
All the variables that are automatically inserted at the beginning of new apps are of this kind, see image below.
The protected variables cannot be deleted using the app development UI or by Ctrl-Q, neither can script-created variables.
To remove script created variables you must first remove them from the app’s load script and then reload the app. Those variables re
The example below deletes certain variables in several apps.
The --dry-run option means Ctrl-Q will not delete any variables, but rather show what would be deleted.
If all variables should be deleted the --delete-all option can be used.
Note that if --delete-all is used --id-type and --variable must not be used.
.\ctrl-q.exe variable-delete `
--auth-type cert `
--host pro2-win1.lab.ptarmiganlabs.net `
--auth-user-dir LAB `
--auth-user-id goran `
--app-id a3e0f5d2-000a-464f-998d-33d333b175d7 2933711d-6638-41d4-a2d2-6dd2d965208b `
--app-tag 'Ctrl-Q variable 1' 'Ctrl-Q variable 2' `
--id-type name `
--variable a1 a2 a3 vVar1 `
--dry-run
2024-03-12T09:21:30.657Z info: -----------------------------------------------------------
2024-03-12T09:21:30.657Z info: | Ctrl-Q
2024-03-12T09:21:30.657Z info: |
2024-03-12T09:21:30.657Z info: | Version : 3.16.0
2024-03-12T09:21:30.657Z info: | Log level : info
2024-03-12T09:21:30.657Z info: |
2024-03-12T09:21:30.657Z info: | Command : variable-delete
2024-03-12T09:21:30.657Z info: | : delete one or more variables in one or more apps
2024-03-12T09:21:30.657Z info: |
2024-03-12T09:21:30.657Z info: | Run Ctrl-Q with the '--help' option to see a list of all available options for this command.
2024-03-12T09:21:30.657Z info: |
2024-03-12T09:21:30.657Z info: | https://github.com/ptarmiganlabs/ctrl-q
2024-03-12T09:21:30.657Z info: ----------------------------------------------------------
2024-03-12T09:21:30.657Z info:
2024-03-12T09:21:31.126Z info: ------------------------
2024-03-12T09:21:31.126Z info: Deleting variables in app 2933711d-6638-41d4-a2d2-6dd2d965208b, "Ctrl-Q CLI"
2024-03-12T09:21:31.626Z info: DRY RUN: Delete of variable "a1" in app 2933711d-6638-41d4-a2d2-6dd2d965208b "Ctrl-Q CLI" would happen here
2024-03-12T09:21:31.626Z warn: Variable "a2" does not exist in app 2933711d-6638-41d4-a2d2-6dd2d965208b "Ctrl-Q CLI"
2024-03-12T09:21:31.626Z info: DRY RUN: Delete of variable "a3" in app 2933711d-6638-41d4-a2d2-6dd2d965208b "Ctrl-Q CLI" would happen here
2024-03-12T09:21:31.626Z warn: Variable "vVar1" does not exist in app 2933711d-6638-41d4-a2d2-6dd2d965208b "Ctrl-Q CLI"
2024-03-12T09:21:31.626Z info: ------------------------
2024-03-12T09:21:31.626Z info: Deleting variables in app f16fa63d-54c7-4c8d-81f1-2d084d46bcfe, "Minecraft Metrics"
2024-03-12T09:21:32.032Z warn: Variable "a1" does not exist in app f16fa63d-54c7-4c8d-81f1-2d084d46bcfe "Minecraft Metrics"
2024-03-12T09:21:32.032Z warn: Variable "a2" does not exist in app f16fa63d-54c7-4c8d-81f1-2d084d46bcfe "Minecraft Metrics"
2024-03-12T09:21:32.032Z warn: Variable "a3" does not exist in app f16fa63d-54c7-4c8d-81f1-2d084d46bcfe "Minecraft Metrics"
2024-03-12T09:21:32.032Z warn: Variable "vVar1" does not exist in app f16fa63d-54c7-4c8d-81f1-2d084d46bcfe "Minecraft Metrics"
2024-03-12T09:21:32.032Z info: ------------------------
2024-03-12T09:21:32.032Z info: Deleting variables in app e377d9b5-231a-4795-800f-3649983647dd, "LDAP lab"
2024-03-12T09:21:32.422Z warn: Variable "a1" does not exist in app e377d9b5-231a-4795-800f-3649983647dd "LDAP lab"
2024-03-12T09:21:32.422Z warn: Variable "a2" does not exist in app e377d9b5-231a-4795-800f-3649983647dd "LDAP lab"
2024-03-12T09:21:32.422Z warn: Variable "a3" does not exist in app e377d9b5-231a-4795-800f-3649983647dd "LDAP lab"
2024-03-12T09:21:32.422Z info: DRY RUN: Delete of variable "vVar1" in app e377d9b5-231a-4795-800f-3649983647dd "LDAP lab" would happen here
2024-03-12T09:21:32.422Z info: ------------------------
2024-03-12T09:21:32.422Z info: Deleting variables in app a3e0f5d2-000a-464f-998d-33d333b175d7, "Sheet thumbnails demo app"
2024-03-12T09:21:33.095Z info: DRY RUN: Delete of variable "a1" in app a3e0f5d2-000a-464f-998d-33d333b175d7 "Sheet thumbnails demo app" would happen here
2024-03-12T09:21:33.095Z info: DRY RUN: Delete of variable "a2" in app a3e0f5d2-000a-464f-998d-33d333b175d7 "Sheet thumbnails demo app" would happen here
2024-03-12T09:21:33.095Z warn: Variable "a3" does not exist in app a3e0f5d2-000a-464f-998d-33d333b175d7 "Sheet thumbnails demo app"
2024-03-12T09:21:33.095Z info: DRY RUN: Delete of variable "vVar1" in app a3e0f5d2-000a-464f-998d-33d333b175d7 "Sheet thumbnails demo app" would happen here
2024-03-12T09:21:33.095Z info: ------------------------
2024-03-12T09:21:33.095Z info: Deleting variables in app d1ace221-b80e-4754-98ea-3d0a9ebc9632, "Residential energy analysis"
2024-03-12T09:21:33.516Z warn: Variable "a1" does not exist in app d1ace221-b80e-4754-98ea-3d0a9ebc9632 "Residential energy analysis"
2024-03-12T09:21:33.532Z warn: Variable "a2" does not exist in app d1ace221-b80e-4754-98ea-3d0a9ebc9632 "Residential energy analysis"
2024-03-12T09:21:33.532Z warn: Variable "a3" does not exist in app d1ace221-b80e-4754-98ea-3d0a9ebc9632 "Residential energy analysis"
2024-03-12T09:21:33.532Z warn: Variable "vVar1" does not exist in app d1ace221-b80e-4754-98ea-3d0a9ebc9632 "Residential energy analysis"
2024-03-12T09:21:33.532Z info: ------------------------
2024-03-12T09:21:33.532Z info: Deleting variables in app c840670c-7178-4a5e-8409-ba2da69127e2, "Meetup.com"
2024-03-12T09:21:34.002Z warn: Variable "a1" does not exist in app c840670c-7178-4a5e-8409-ba2da69127e2 "Meetup.com"
2024-03-12T09:21:34.016Z warn: Variable "a2" does not exist in app c840670c-7178-4a5e-8409-ba2da69127e2 "Meetup.com"
2024-03-12T09:21:34.016Z warn: Variable "a3" does not exist in app c840670c-7178-4a5e-8409-ba2da69127e2 "Meetup.com"
2024-03-12T09:21:34.016Z warn: Variable "vVar1" does not exist in app c840670c-7178-4a5e-8409-ba2da69127e2 "Meetup.com"
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