Re-posted idea from http://help.zoho.com/portal/en/community/topic/stateless-fields-and-push-buttons-in-a-database-form
There is value in having a programmatically accessible global variable list. It would be similar to our global functions in that global variables can be used anywhere in an application (similar to zoho-defined variables). Here we could define our own variable names, types (numeric, date, string, etc), and optionally add default values that could be referenced in any code or form or function within the application.