Flow Designer Action Output Variable

[ericgilmore]

Creating an Action in Flow Designer. What it does is take a Date/Time value, make it a string and pass it to the output variable.

The input section of the Action catches my RITM and a Date/Time variable (original_date).

Next I have a Script step and a Notification step.

The Script step takes the Date/Time variable (inputs.original_date) and transforms it to a String (outputs). This string value is output to a string variable (outputs.some_date).

Next is the Notification Step. I created a simple notification that I thought would be able to use this variable (some_date) as a variable in the notification on the What it will contain tab, in the Message HTML field, like this ${variables.some_date}, but no. I can use the un-altered beginning variable that I pass into the Action ${variables.original_date} but not my transformed date to string.

What am I missing here? 

[Erik Gunther2]

I propose adding some screenshots. Maybe I can help if I can better understand what you're trying to do. Thanks.

[ericgilmore]

There you go.

[ericgilmore]

The input section of the Action catches my RITM and a Date/Time variable (original_date).

Next I have a Script step and a Notification step.

The Script step takes the Date/Time variable (inputs.original_date) and transforms it to a String (outputs). This string value is output to a string variable (outputs.some_date).

Next is the Notification Step.

I created a simple notification that I thought would be able to use this variable (some_date) as a variable in the notification on the What it will contain tab, in the Message HTML field, like this ${variables.some_date}, but no. I can use the un-altered beginning variable that I pass into the Action ${variables.original_date} but not my transformed date to string.

 

Thoughts?

[Hitoshi Ozawa]

Did you check if the date format that you created is in the right format?

ServiceNow by default use yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss date/time format internally. The display format may be set by each enduser. Run test on Action you've created and check the output to make sure the format is the same as the unaltered date/time variable.