Using the Workflow Manager Screen – Advanced - Learning Informatica PowerCenter 9.x - page 210

The assignment task
The assignment task is used to assign a value to user-defined variables in Workflow Man-
ager.
Before you can define a variable in the assignment task, you need to add the variable in
Workflow Manager. To add a variable to the Workflow, perform the following steps:
1. In Workflow Manager, open the workflow for which you wish to define user-
defined variables. Navigate to Workflow | Edit | Variables .
2. Click on the Add a new variable option to add new variables to the workflow, as
shown in the preceding screenshot.
A new variable is created, as shown in the preceding screenshot. The new variable
that is created is $$NEWVARIABLE1 . You can change the name of the variable
and its data type.