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 Dilipan Venkatesan (DilipanV105)
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DilipanV105 Member since 2012 148 posts
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Posted: Jan 7, 2019
Last activity: Jan 10, 2019
Posted: 7 Jan 2019 3:30 EST
Last activity: 10 Jan 2019 1:53 EST
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atools and tools parameter values used in functions

I have seen in lot of functions in Pega where a value called "tools" or "atools" sometimes passed as values for parameters (of type PublicAPI/ Activities) like below

@DecisionTable.ObtainValue(tools,myStepPage,"StageCode",true)

Anyone knows the reason for it, just to understand it, don't want to use it blindley.

***Edited by Moderator Marissa to update platform capability tags****

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Posted: 6 years ago
Posted: 7 Jan 2019 9:26 EST
Dmitry Kolesnikov (Dima K)
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You should mention it to use PublicAPI function inside of the Java function. E.g in ObtainValue it used to get Parameter page.

There is also another way of doing this without passing "tools" parameters to the function:

you can use following code in your function:

PRThread  thisThread = (PRThread)ThreadContainer.get();
if (thisThread != null) {
tools = thisThread.getPublicAPI();
}
But for old OOTB functions (like ObtainValue) you have to stick to passing reference for PublicAPI
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