Dynamic workflow scratchpad variable names

[arabeau]

Hi All,

hoping someone can help with this... basically what I want to do is do a glide record query and loop through returned results to set a workflow.scratchpad variable with a .name of a returned gr.value

ie, creating a workflow.scratchpad variable with the variable's name equal to the value of gr.number for example

say looping through 3 glide record results on the incident table I want to set variables like the below

workflow.scratchpad.INC0001011 = someOtherValue;

workflow.scratchpad.INC0001012 = anotherOtherValue;

workflow.scratchpad.INC0001013 = yetAnotherOtherValue;

so that later on in my workflow I can reference the value of workflow.scratchpad.INC0001012

conceptually I want something like this, but I believe its just going to keep overwriting workflow.scratchpad.varName

 function setVariable(varName, value) {
  workflow.scratchpad.varName = value;
 }

anyone have any suggestions on how to do this, or suggestions on other ways to set a dynamic list of workflow.scratchpad.variables? Any help greatly appreciated!

Ajay

[Jon Barnes]

workflow.scratchpad is a js object, so you can get/set properties on a JS object one of 2 ways:

1. workflow.scratchpad.name = value;
2. workflow.scratchpad['name'] = value;

and for getting the values using option 2:

return workflow.scratchpad['name'];

Option 2 is the way to go for your use case

[Jon Barnes · Accepted solution]

here is an example, looping through a GR. This sample will create properties on scratchpad that are the sys_id (getUniqueValue()) of each record, and the value of that property gets set to the display value of that record.

while (gr.next()) {
  workflow.scratchpad[gr.getUniqueValue()] = gr.getDisplayValue();
}

[arabeau]

thanks jon, you rock!