Campaign Management Tool Advanced Topics

We all are very much familiar with variables in Campaign Classic. But in Standard, it is not easy to declare or use variables inside workflow. There are activities like Load File, Transfer File and other which supports the variables like var.filename or other activities supporting var.reccount in the same way as Classic. But using custom variable is not as simple as ACC and here is one of the ways I tried The first End Activity is calling the Signal activity and while calling, passing the variables and their values as below Below  Signal activity is configured with the same set of variables as the End Activity above. Also you have the option to mention the data type of the variables (String and Number in this case). In the Query Activity (which for no reason I choose the Sending Log as dimension), you can add the variables using the syntax $(var/@varName) format as was used in Classic. Also the $Int exists as well. I tried to check different outcomes as you can see in the screensho...

I had a scenario where I need to show some questions depending on the answers of a previous question. For example, the below test scenario So I created the Archive field for all the questions including the Radio button and Drop down one which will be used for the dynamic criteria. I had setup the visibility of the field using the Archive Field. But while previewing I realized that the questions are getting shown or hidden depending on selection (example below). So I created two new variables for the survey with names as How_was_your_last_hopital_visit and Was_your_out_of_pocket_expenses_over_budget_. Then changed the visibility criteria to use the variables. Now it is working perfectly. But when I saved the survey, it doesn't save the data of those variables. But I need those selections as well. So I added a javascript task before the Storage activity and set the tables fields from the variables so that when it is in the storage activity, it column value is populate...