When a guide is embedded within another guide, the embedded guide can receive data from the first guide and send data back to it. (For more information, see the Creating Embedded Guides topics.) Within the embedded guide, you define this data by selecting the Fields tab. In the Type list, select the data type of this field.

The items in this list are all data types. Each represents the kinds of data that a guide can use. Most of the type, all you need do is select the type. If you need to be more precise, you can fill in additional information using a

Field Properties

dialog, which is displayed by clicking the "

...

" to the right of the item set in the Type column.

Note

: If the data type is an object or an object list, you must use the

Field Properties

dialog to specify additional information.

To the left of the Type picklist is the name that you are assigning to the information passed to the guide from the embedding guide. For definitions for each of these items, see Types of Data.

If the value of an

Input field

is changed in the embedded guide, it's value is also changed in the embedding guide. This is because the scope of the input field is both the embedding and embedded guide.

Notice how there are three kinds of data types. The first (simple) are built-in. The other two are ones that you add through services and process objects that you've added.