OpenWGA 7.6 - OpenWGA Concepts and Features

As Items, JavaScript variables and WebTML variables are sometimes retrieved using the same functionality an order of priority must exist to answer the question which type is retrieved when there are multiple equally named variables of different types.

TMLScript follows this rule of thumb: The smaller the scope, the higher the priority

Variables of lower scope are normally more specific to the current code than those with a bigger scope. So it is more likely that they are meant when their name is used.

For the known variable types this means the following priority list:

Priority	Type	Scope
1.	JavaScript variables	The current script
2.	Portlet variables	In the current portlet and request
3.	Portlet session variables	In the current portlet for the browser session
4.	Normal WebTML vaiables	The current request
5.	WebTML session variables	The browser session
6.	Items- and metadata	Persistent