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using typedef and struct is all new to me at this point. Here is what I have done.

In Global Code

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typedef struct stElement
{
   int var1;
   int var2;
} Element;

Element e1;
e1.var1 = 5;
e1.var2 = 10;

For some reason the e1 variable is not global. When I try to access the "fields" on it from an actors script it has a value of 0. If I set it in the actors script (instead of in global code) then it works.

Am I doing something wrong or not doing something?

The Global Code editor don't will assign the values or execute functions by itself. You need set the variable values in some Script Editor action.
So, the code 'e1.var1 = 5; ' in the Global Code has no effect. A good place to initialize the game variables is in the 'Create Actor' event of the view actor.

ahhh, I see. Thanks.

This has been tested and works for me (inside GE IDE and PC export) and it's a pretty cool thing to know for C programmers who are at entry or beginner level.

You can initialize an array of structs through a static declaration of data in one go in the globals. This is just a quick example of what I mean:

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struct POINT
{
 int x;
 int y;
}

struct POINT points[] =
{
  {0, 21},
  {35, 78},
  {8, 219}
}

... this is a very simple example, but I have done it with much larger and more complex structs with no problems. Great for specifying big ranges of data in-code rather than with an external file. I have also done this with single char * string arrays, but have not tried using the "string" variable type inside a struct yet.

Almost anything that would work in standard C code, will also work in C-script, with only a few limitations here and there. This opens up a pretty big world of code and you could write some extremely complex programs with this kind of infrastructure. I'm working on an iso game using a lot of data and object oriented pointers to functions right now in GE.