Define Critical Variable

You can directly define and view the critical variables in NI edit mode, or open the Critical Variable dialog for modification.

1.  Click the Define Critical Variables area and Critical Variables tab is displayed.
   
   
2. Define the critical variables.

• Automatically Select All Diagnosis Variables: All diagnosis variables will be selected as critical variables to qualify devices to be matched with seed device parsers. Only the variables for defining the If and Else blocks in NI Diagnosis will be automatically collected as critical variables. The variables from NI note, status code and follow-up NIT/follow-up self definitions that are not commonly used as critical variables are no longer automatically selected. If table column data is used for defining NI diagnosis, the table data and table column data can be selected as critical variable value. In the majority of cases, you can use this option to define the critical variables. 
• Manually Select: Switch to the Manually Select mode and select specific variables based on your needs.
  

a. Select variables to server as critical variables.

b. Select the check box in the Replicate column.

Note: If you switch from the Automatically Select all Diagnosis Variables option to the Manually Select option, the automatically selected critical variables will remain selected for the Manually Select option, but users can change the selections.

3. The defined critical variables are directly displayed in the right pane. You can click Edit to modify them.