How do you store global/public constants?

Questions
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I’m considering using option sets to store global/public constants. Since these are public, I don’t care who sees them.

Anyone have suggestions on how to structure this option set? Values can be strings, numbers mostly.

Thank you.

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Hi Matthew,

In my apps, I just create a Data Type (table) with a single entry and, on page load, I get the information from this table last item.

You can use a reusable element (1x1px) to load this information on page load, so you don’t have to configure every page.

At least, this was the easiest solution I thought.

You can create custom states on the reusable element and set these states on page load, so you can retrieve the information on every page.

Hope it’s helpful

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Using an option set is fine but just remember that these can’t be updated dynamically.

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I create a data type called “admin” or similar to store all the system wide values in

option set is ok but it’s harder to use than a data type

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If it’s not sensitive data just use option set, make attributes for different values needed such as text or numbers

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I also found this:

This is akin to the Salesforce “Label”, which can be translated as well.

Considering what I’m mostly interested in is storing labels, this works perfectly.