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? 

[ericgilmore]

The date format is working. The output variable is coming across as (Fri, Sep 13, 2020) which is the format I wanted. I just can't pickup that just_date output variable in my notification with ${variables.just_date}.

[Hitoshi Ozawa]

I think you'll need to use String data type for output variable in that case.

[ericgilmore]

Yes. It is a string.

[Hitoshi Ozawa]

"variables" are usually used to refer to a variable on a form. If you're just trying to use a output variable from steps before, ${some_date} should do. It should be possible to just drag & drop variables listed in the right side.

[ericgilmore]

Yeah, that would seem to be a possibility, but no. Still no luck on this one.