Need to sneak a global variable into a macro

In everything I've read, there is no easy way to set a global workflow value once and have it go into 20-30 copies of the same macro without a separate connection into each macro. I imagine I could cleverly have the user input it and save it to a file and then pull it from the file from inside the macro, but I'm looking for a more elegant hack. Any thoughts? Any clever way to sneak a value from the workflow constants or other type of user input into a bunch of macros without messing up the workflow, as the users are beginners who I don't want to confuse.

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Qiu

@KaiLarsen

Maybe you are looking for a user constant?

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Knowledge-Base/Parameter-Constants/ta-p/30010

KaiLarsen

Sadly not. User constants are not available inside a macro, probably because macros are developed as separate workflows.

ThomasT

@KaiLarsen I just came across the same issue. I want to pull the [Engine.WorkflowFileName] into a macro that sits inside that workflow. Unfortunately when running the macro I get this output which is quite interesting "[Unnamed Module]" so it definitely doesn't pull in the workflow name, but it also doesn't remember it's own workflow name (maybe because it changed to a .yxmc and the workflow name constant doesn't exists anymore).

Let me know if you have found a good workaround, all I can think of is to add a control paramenter to the macro but I wanted to avoid that at all cost.

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