Flow Designer Catalog Variables: any way to generically obtain them in Flow?

[tahnalos]

My client has over 250 Catalog items.  We are converting these Catalog items to use Flow Designer.

Previously, these 250 Catalog items were using a common workflow, which turned out to be pretty useful for us.  Within that workflow, we were able to create tasks for each of these Catalog Items.  We note that there are differences in fields for each catalog item, so we used Variable Sets for the common fields.  I'm actually not sure how they included other fields outside of the variable sets, but I assume a great deal of scripting was involved.

In trying to find out how to create a common flow in Flow Designer, I discovered that we are unable to include fields that are outside the variable sets.  Well actually, we could, but it defeats the purpose of the Common Flow that we are trying to create.  Is there any alternative to looking up these variables and including them in the Catalog Task instead of having to create a separate flow for each Catalog Item?  I don't want to create 250 separate flows.

[Rahul Goyal]

Hi Tahnalos, 

Did you get a solution ?

[zynsn]

Interested in the solution for this too.

[ViswaSunny]

Please do let us know if you found any solution for this

[GabrielCSSMI]

Hi @tahnalos ,

Could you provide a screenshot of which variables you are trying to access exactly please?

I think you would need to create a custom action taking a reference to a record of your catalog item table as such:

Then you need only return each value you need within an output variable via script:

Back in your flow, your output variables will be available either with fd_data.actionstep.variable or with a pill:

Since all variables within your set will be named the same across all your catalog items it should work.