How do “Name” and “Global Name” work and how to use it and when?

[nexgen]

For set value action there’s two fields for name. Name and Global Name. How to use it and when?

[sitestreet]

This is a great question. I’ve found that you need Global Name to reference the value outside of a repeat or loop where it’s been set. My habit is to fill in both Name and Global Name with the same name on everything but I’d love to know if that is bad practice. If it is a perfectly good way to go then it does beg the question, “why don’t we just have one field which is the global one?”

[Hyperbytes]

Discussed here

Set value - Name and Global Name values discussion

Since day one of using Wappler I confess to being a little unsure of how the server connect Set value component works in relation to names and global names and could not find clarification within forum docs so today I have investigated and these are my conclusions. Names are of course mandatory, global names are optional parameters So here is my take on this and my questions about them We start with [image] At this point I have always assumed that the difference between the Name and the Glo…