# Setting user-defined parameters

Available in...

* Cloud API Services Platform
* Cloud Big Data
* Cloud Big Data Platform
* Cloud Data Fabric
* Cloud Data Integration
* Cloud Data Management Platform
* Data Fabric
* Qlik Talend Cloud Enterprise Edition
* Qlik Talend Cloud Premium Edition

You can use the Context view in Talend Studio to define context environments, context parameters and context values.

## Before you begin

An artifact is created and open in Talend Studio.

## About this task

The password is treated as a confidential information (encrypted):

* When publishing an artifact for the first time, its value is cleared and has to be set for the corresponding task in Talend Management Console.
* When you re-publish an artifact, its value in the corresponding task stays the same in Talend Management Console.

## Procedure

1. In the workspace, click the Context view to open the Context view.

   If the Context view is not displayed, click Window > Show view > Talend , and select Context.
2. From the Context view:
   1. Use the button for managing environments at the top right corner to add a new context environment.

      For further information, see [Defining context environments](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0/defining-contexts).
   2. Use the [+] button to add lines in the table and define the names and values of the context variables.

      For further information, see [Defining context variables for a Job or Route](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0/defining-context-variables-for-job-or-route).

   ![Context view.](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/Resources/images/cloud-context-naming_conventions2.png)

   Information noteNote: Context parameter values are processed differently when executing a task from Talend Management Console or Talend Studio. When entering the value for a context parameter in Talend Management Console during the task configuration, you must use \\ instead of \ when the value could be interpreted as a special character, for example, \t.