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Creating Dialogs

The Process Mode of the EDITOR panel allows you to make a query into a dialog that prompts for variable selections at execution time. A dialog is a query that, when executed, prompts the user for specific entries where portions of the query have been designated as variable. The dialog can provide a default selection, a list of valid entries for character variables and a range of valid entries for numeric variables.

Any part of a query can be a variable for which the person executing the query can substitute another value. Each variable must have a unique variable ID.

For information about how dialogs work when the user sees them, see Responding to Extra Panels During Execution.