The Combine Text step lets you combine multiple text variables together. While you can achieve the same result by directly entering the variables in a step’s option, this step can be helpful if you want to pass the combined text output into multiple other options.
If you’re combining text to pass the variable into a single option in another step, you can skip the Combine Text entirely and just combine the variables in the other step’s option!
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