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Hello,
I want to ask for topic “Katalon Studio”.
Is there any tips/trick to clone the variable name in Global Variable (Profile)?
The Idea that come to my mind is only doing copy-paste in the section “Profile” in the “Tests Explorer”. but this will be a problem if I need to rewrite all of the values for the new profile.
Here’s an example/illustration:
Profile 1: Default/Staging
Variables | Values
url: https://katalon-staging-cura.herokuapp.com/
username: John Doe
password: ThisIsThePassword
Not possible in katalon but as a workaround you can create different branches in git and merge the base branch where you are adding variables let’s say some other profile
When you run your test while you chose the “Staging” profile, GlobalVariable.password will be available for your test with value of ThisIsNotPassword which is declared in the default profile.
When you run your test while you chose the “Pre-release” profile, GlobalVariable.password will be available for your test with value of ThisIsNotPassword which is declared in the default profile.
So you do not need to copy the value ThisIsNotPassword at all. The default profile is always inherited.
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If you have two profiles and you only have items in Default but not in say, “Staging” it should fall back to Default. There’s an inheritance back to “Default”
So
I ran the following code:
import internal.GlobalVariable as GlobalVariable
// Print the Global Variables
println GlobalVariable.city
println GlobalVariable.parentCheck
Here’s my result
2025-06-24 22:58:06.981 INFO c.k.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor - --------------------
2025-06-24 22:58:06.985 INFO c.k.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor - START Test Cases/GlobalVariables
2025-06-24 22:58:07.491 DEBUG testcase.GlobalVariables - 1: println(city)
Tokyo
2025-06-24 22:58:08.287 DEBUG testcase.GlobalVariables - 2: println(parentCheck)
TRUE
2025-06-24 22:58:08.312 INFO c.k.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor - END Test Cases/GlobalVariables
in Default I have
parentCheck = TRUE
city = HCM
I ran it under Staging and in my Staging Profile I only have
As everyone has mentioned, you do not need to rewrite all your variables. However, you do need to “rewrite” those variables that have a different value in your profiles, such as “gSiteUrl” for all your different browser start-up locations (or whatever you call yours). In my case, I have over 60 variables in my Default profile, but less than 10 in my other profiles. To date, I do an individual copy and paste when I do need to create a new profile. Katalon could create a tool to “move” between profiles, I guess, but it likely would be misused because of the simplicity and duplicate more variables than needed.
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