# Payload and variables

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/payload-and-variables/38015>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [25 December 2020 21:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/payload-and-variables/38015 "2020-12-25T21:03:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [26 December 2020 08:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/payload-and-variables/38015/4 "2020-12-26T08:16:42Z")

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Please see this post for how to paste a flow here, so that it can easily be imported. You can edit your previous post to fix the problem.

> [@How to share code or flow json](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-share-code-or-flow-json/506):
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> To share code samples or flow json in this forum, you need to take care to format it properly so that it is displayed correctly. The easiest way to do that is to click the 'Preformatted Text' button in the toolbar: [image] Then paste in your code or flow json. You should end up with three back-tick characters - ``` - on their own line before and after the code. On standard US English keyboards, this is on the same key as the ~ character. Using the backticks will ens…

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