# Generate Rows and Get Variable

**URL:** <https://community.automationedge.com/t/generate-rows-and-get-variable/1724>\
**Category:** Get Help & Discuss\
**Created:** [March 3, 2020, 10:25am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/generate-rows-and-get-variable/1724 "2020-03-03T10:25:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mrunalini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@mrunalini](https://community.automationedge.com/u/mrunalini)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 10:25am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/generate-rows-and-get-variable/1724/1 "2020-03-03T10:25:50Z")

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What is the difference between “Generate Rows” and “Get Variable”?

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**Author:** ![BhagyashriC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a8b319/32.png) [@BhagyashriC](https://community.automationedge.com/u/BhagyashriC)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/generate-rows-and-get-variable/1724/2 "2020-03-03T12:36:01Z")

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Using Generate Rows one can give hard coded input as below

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/automationedge/original/1X/cb28d82a95c33c3588bb977e7faaa4185d88deac.png)

Get variable used for getting value from another process or workflow  
By using cntr+space key you can access that env\_variable which is set in another workflow.

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/automationedge/original/1X/87d9269802c06e20eb6c73918cd1550b3c71171b.png)

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**Author:** ![mrunalini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@mrunalini](https://community.automationedge.com/u/mrunalini)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 4:43am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/generate-rows-and-get-variable/1724/3 "2020-03-04T04:43:20Z")

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Thank you BhagyashriC for prompt reply!!

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**Author:** ![priyanka.gupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3be4f8/32.png) [@priyanka.gupta](https://community.automationedge.com/u/priyanka.gupta)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 7:34am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/generate-rows-and-get-variable/1724/4 "2020-03-05T07:34:16Z")

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In Generate rows" step, we can create n number of rows and in “Get variable” step we can only create one row at a time.