- TIBCO BusinessEvents®
- Standard
- Temporal
- History

# Temporal.History.previous()

## Signature

`Object previous(PropertyAtom pad)`

## Domain

ACTION, CONDITION, QUERY, BUI

## Description

This method returns the previous value of a PropertyAtom.

## Parameters

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`pad` | `PropertyAtom` | The property to check for the value of.

## Returns

Type | Description
--- | ---
`Object` | returns the previous value.

## Cautions

If this is the first value; PropertyAtomInt default value is returned.