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url: /process-functions/script-prompt.md
description: >-
  When used in the pre() function, upon execution of the process this function
  will raise a question to the user executing the process.
---

# script.prompt

When used in the `pre()` function, upon execution of the process this function will raise a question to the user executing the process.

```js
script.prompt(messageToUser, variableName, defaultValue)
```

#### Parameters

* `messageToUser` - the name of the request to the user (who is executing the process.
* `variableName` - the variable within which to store the users response.
* `defaultValue` - the default value to prepopulate the prompt with.

#### Example

```js
script.prompt("Current Month", "current_month", "2014 - Jan");
```