Flow Designer : Adding to, (Not replacing) comments in string variable after meeting IF condition. Possible?

[Stephen31]

Trying to use "flow designer", or I should say, required to use flow designer for something in particular. 

Hitting a roadblock (again) on something that is usually very simple to do in workflows.  Modifying a string variable (comment field) to include additional text depending on if it meets a condition.

There is a series of IF conditions and if meets one of them it needs to add a piece of information to the comments.  But so far it seems like I can only manage to get it to REPLACE what is there, not add to it.. so basically = not +=.  Anyone know how to get this designer to do this?  Can't find anything in the documentation.

Thank you!

[pratikjaiswal]

Hi Stephen,

Do you want to add an additional comment or edit an already present comment on the record?

Thanks,

Pratik

[Stephen31]

adding additional information to the text already present in the comment

[Sukraj Raikhraj · Accepted solution]

Hey, look into adding a script action, which would allows an input, concatenate additional info to comments ...and capture the output  

[Ian Mildon]

Not done anything like this in Flow but I have via Client Script or UI Policy; but you should be able to do something similar via a script action.

And to give you an idea on how to do this, here is a script I used to grab the current field values, push a new text value and on a new line add the original contents back.

var arrVal = [];
arrVal = g_form.getValue('u_inf_server_names');

var nMsg = "The 'Servers Used' field above is now obsolete and will be removed in 2022";

//only run if the message is not already set - prevent multiple message entries
if (arrVal.includes(nMsg)) {
    return;
} else {
    g_form.setValue('u_inf_server_names', nMsg + "\n\n" + arrVal); //push message AND original value(s) back into the field
}