mattcasters opened a new pull request, #7960: URL: https://github.com/apache/hop/pull/7960
## What Adds the dedicated **Fields, parameters, and variables** comparison page requested in #3185, based on the 2023 community draft. ## Why The draft was useful but had already been pasted into the Variables page, where it overlapped the later Parameters and hierarchy sections and contradicted a few current rules. A single comparison page is easier to link to than repeating that material on every executor / Set-Get Variables page. ## What was kept - Fields vs parameters vs variables comparison - Downstream vs upstream, and that Get Parameters only looks one level up - Parameters as function arguments that become same-named variables - Declare the parameter on the receiving pipeline/workflow - Returning fields via Copy rows to result + executor Result rows - Runtime vs configuration variables - Inheritance gotcha: an empty child default can wipe a same-named environment/project variable ## What was dropped - Duplicate Parameters / Variables write-up already covered on the Variables reference - “Define a parameter only once on the Pipeline Executor” - The old explicit vs implicit explanation (out of date vs current activation) - Hierarchy list already documented as a table ## Also - Removed the 2023 dump from the top of `variables.adoc` and pointed that page at the new comparison - Linked from Concepts, Getting Started, best practices, Pipeline/Workflow executors and actions, Set Variables, and Get variables Closes #3185 -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
