{"id":2282,"date":"2026-04-07T02:25:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=2282"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:25:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:55:43","password":"","slug":"what-is-variable-state-in-settings","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb\/what-is-variable-state-in-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Variable state in Settings?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Variable state<\/strong>&nbsp;is a read-only view of the&nbsp;<strong>current global variable values<\/strong>&nbsp;at runtime. It is stored in a DB column (e.g. variable_state) and is not part of the workflow JSON (workflowData is not updated at runtime with variable values). Open it via&nbsp;<strong>Settings \u2192 Variable state<\/strong>&nbsp;to inspect what the engine is using for globals without editing the journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variable state&nbsp;is a read-only view of the&nbsp;current global variable values&nbsp;at runtime. It is stored in a DB column (e.g. variable_state) and is not part of the workflow JSON (workflowData is not updated at runtime with variable values). Open it via&nbsp;Settings \u2192 Variable state&nbsp;to inspect what the engine is using for globals without editing the journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[1964],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2282","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-workflow-builder"],"year_month":"2026-07","word_count":66,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin","author_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Workflow Builder","term_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb-cat\/workflow-builder\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}