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====== Set Browser Cookie ======
This action will let you build an [[Expression Builder|expression]], and then save the results of that expression into the browser cookie you specify.
===== Explanation =====
Set browser cookie actions are used to set a piece of data into the browser's collection of cookies, which can be later read out of the browser with the [[Expression Function - Read Cookie|Read Cookie]] expression function.

Example: Suppose you're building an application to allow people to receive links in their email that bring them to a [[Form Type - Page|page]] in your application that is a survey; and you only want to allow them to take this survey one time.  You can use a set cookie action to write a cookie into their browser that identifies each survey they've taken so that if they try and take it a second time you can read that cookie from their browser and redirect them to a different page.
===== Settings =====
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==== What cookie do you want to set? ====
Enter the name of a browser cookie to set.

==== What value do you want to set in the cookie? ====
The result of this expression will be set into the browser cookie you chose above.

==== When should this cookie expire? ====
Choose a browser cookie lifetime option.

==== Describe this action ====
Useful as a comment, this description will overwrite the automatically generated description in the [[Action Manager|Action Manager]].