Accessing variables from one layer.

Hi all,
I am new to falsh so please help. I have defined some
variable at one layer say click origin and destination and i want
to access that varibale on click event of a button.
how to access that variable on another layer.
Thanks in advance.

'layers' are not referred to and cannot be referred to in
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