Pabot processes not able to access global variable

Extensions Pabot
1

I am using pabot to run test cases in parallel. Have set a global variable in suite setup but when tests running in parallel, one process able to access global variable and other not able to.

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Suite Setup Run Setup Only Once Setup Test Suite

*** Keywords ***
Setup Test Suite
[Documentation] This function is used to setup test suite.
${test_sn}= hello-12345
Set global variable ${test_sn}

*** Test Cases ***
TC001 First test case
log many ${test_sn}

TC002 Second test case
log many ${test_sn}
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IN the above example, after parallel execution (via pabot), I could see that one test able to access the global variable ${test_sn} but other test case fails with error ''Variable ${test_sn} not found.”

2

Please see PabotLib for sharing a value between processes

3

Thanks Miko for the response. Yes, I was able to overcome this problem using Set/Get Parallel Value for key but was thinking if there is any straight forward way for processes to use global variables (without needing to call Get/Set Prallel Value for Key keyword).