Hi I'd say you should be using properties for such use cases - with the advantage that you can even pass them from the command line (unless different threads should connect to different db which i doubt)
You can specify defaults with the function call for the proeprty- http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/functions.html#__property see here for an example for passing it from command line http://theworkaholic.blogspot.com/2009/06/testing-multiple-environments-with.html regards deepak On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Janine DeBeradinis < jdeberadi...@higherone.com> wrote: > Hello - > > I was wondering if there was some way to set a default value on a variable. > For example: > > I have variable A for our database URL. > I have script A which connect to the database using variable A. > I have script B which calls script A to connect to the database. > I would like to either set variable A in script B (so it gets used in A) OR > have script A use a default variable (if one is not 'passed in') from script > B. Example: > > Is this possible? > > Thanks in advance. > > Janine >