# Create Variable **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Created:** [October 2, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-variable/49971 "2018-10-02T14:31:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Raja\_Mazni\_Raja\_Musa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@Raja\_Mazni\_Raja\_Musa](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Raja_Mazni_Raja_Musa)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-variable/49971/1 "2018-10-02T14:31:47Z")
Hello , anybody can help me , i need to create initialize global variable. How to create new variable ? Help me for my last year project. ---
**Author:** ![AcrobatEpee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/acrobatepee/32/26336_2.png) [@AcrobatEpee](https://community.thunkable.com/u/AcrobatEpee)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-variable/49971/2 "2018-10-02T15:08:44Z")
Just press the variable category and “create variable” name it and then select the “ set variable to” block ---
**Author:** ![Raja\_Mazni\_Raja\_Musa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@Raja\_Mazni\_Raja\_Musa](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Raja_Mazni_Raja_Musa)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2018, 7:25am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-variable/49971/3 "2018-10-06T07:25:46Z")
how ? i dont understand 😭 ---
**Author:** ![doctorsof](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/doctorsof/32/30099_2.png) [@doctorsof](https://community.thunkable.com/u/doctorsof)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 11:14am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-variable/49971/4 "2018-11-04T11:14:21Z")
Three variable have app,store,cloud… I am seeing some projects have without “app,store or cloud name” how can create without theese names variable… For example app btnSearch variable. But i want to create without pre name like btnSearch variable. I think this is really basic but i didnt find. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![AcrobatEpee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/acrobatepee/32/26336_2.png) [@AcrobatEpee](https://community.thunkable.com/u/AcrobatEpee)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 11:23am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-variable/49971/5 "2018-11-04T11:23:32Z")
You need to create a procedure, press the setting button at the top of it, add a variablename and plug it into the procedure. Then when you’ll go to your variable list you will have the variable without a prefix. That saif I strongly recommend using app variable ---
**Author:** ![doctorsof](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/doctorsof/32/30099_2.png) [@doctorsof](https://community.thunkable.com/u/doctorsof)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-variable/49971/7 "2018-11-04T13:58:59Z")
![variable](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/1/9/190dc09f10938aaaf588fd7b36b458fef562a695.png) Is that true way? I didnt see any create variable without a prefix? So how can i do? ---
**Author:** ![AcrobatEpee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/acrobatepee/32/26336_2.png) [@AcrobatEpee](https://community.thunkable.com/u/AcrobatEpee)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-variable/49971/8 "2018-11-04T17:09:29Z")
Yes this is it. The variables created withing that purple block are the old variables, so you can do what you were asking 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 11:54am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-variable/49971/9 "2024-11-08T11:54:50Z")