What is the use of "Variable is hidden from parent processes and reports"
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Hi Swetha
My understanding (and I'm prepared to be educated by those who may have a deeper insight here) is that if you were to consider a true Object Oriented language your Objects would have 'Getters' and 'Setters' through which the internal state of an Object can be determined, but that the internal state of an object should reside in 'private variables'. So you can consider setting the 'hidden' attribute of a process variable to the equivalent of a 'private variable' of an Object.
By default this attribute is NOT set, and so a new pv! is thus by default a candidate 'Getter' and/or 'Setter'.
Having said that, I've never (in my 7 years at Appian) seen this actively used.
Stewart
Thank you Stewart Burchell,