How to store “session” values – values that exist only during user session

Sometimes it may be necessary to store some values specific to the session of a particular user – for example, remember current selection of the user. You may want to use such values in rules, but you don’t want them to be persisted in the database, because they do not make sense when the user logs out.

Aware IM supports a concept of the “session object”. The instance of this object is created once per user – when the user logs in. This instance then becomes automatically available in Context of business rules (you don’t need to find it), for example

IF MySessionObject.CurrentSelection = 'abc' THEN ... 

To define such an object you can create any object with any attributes as required and then set its Persistence property to “Not Persisted”. You should then tick the “Stores session values” checkbox to indicate that this object is the “session” object. Note that you can set only one business object as “session” object.