Value For Dialog

Use the Value for dialog to specify and edit a value. You can access this dialog from various locations in the user interface by clicking the icon next to the value that you want to edit. You can find this icon in the following locations:

The name of this dialog varies depending on where in the interface it was opened from. For example, when you open this dialog from a variable value field, it is called Value for <variable name>. When you open it from an action's Source property to specify an embedded source, it is called Value for Embedded Source.

This dialog provides the following options: 

: Exports the contents of the value to a file.

: Undoes the previous action.

: Redoes the previously undone action.


: Cuts the selected content and places it on the Clipboard.

: Copies the selected content and places it on the Clipboard.

: Pastes the contents of the Clipboard.


: Displays a list of text formatting options (text, XML, and HTML). Click to select the format that you want.


: Wraps the value within the editing pane.

: Displays a list of encoding schemes to use for exporting. Click to select the scheme that you want.


: Displays the Find search bar so that you can search for text in the value. Click to see a list of search options.

When the text formatting option is set to HTML, you can access further formatting options by using the secondary mouse button to click in the editing pane. The following options are available: