A user-defined dataslot is a variable defined by the Application Developer during process template development using OpenEdge BPM Designer in Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge. A user-defined dataslot can be of the type – CHARACTER, LOGICAL, INTEGER, INT64, DECIMAL, Object, DATETIME-TZ, LIST, Map, or Business Object. Each is defined through the OpenEdge BPM Designer interface in Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge.