Editing Messaging flows (section)

=== Messaging Flow variables ===
Messaging Flow variables are created and used within a messaging flow. They are made by using a question step, a menu step, a template with buttons, and an action step. These variables are accessible during the messaging flow execution and, unless you save them as contact attributes or send them to a webhook, they will be lost once the messaging flow finishes.

A step always precedes a messaging flow variable, and then the name of the step that got the variable. For example, if you want to use the messaging flow’s variable ask_name from a question step called “ask_name,” you would use %step.ask_name%.