How do we pass the output from Rest Step and Parse Response step in Integration Hub to another step/action/subflow in a Flow Designer?

[Rimi]

How do we pass the output from Rest Step and Parse Response step in Integration Hub to another step/action/subflow in a Flow Designer? I want to utilize it for further data manipulation or record creation in a custom table. Tried to use Create Record Action step after Parse Response but this does not provide dynamic data population option.

[DScroggins]

Hi,

When configuring the action make sure that you define Output variables on the Parse Response step, as well as, the action outputs like so:

Parse Response Step Outputs:

Action Outputs:

Then in your flow you'll be able to utilize the output variables as data pills in any subsequent actions/subflows/etc:

Hope this helps.

--David

[Rimi]

Hi David,

This helps and I created a separate action(Step 2) after the Rest and Parse action(Step1), that is now able to accept the output from step1 and create records in a table. Now my challenge here is I have multiple records that come in the response, and I need to pass all the records in the output, not sure if Service Now supports array of output records in this scenario. 

[DScroggins]

You should be able to pass the stringified array/object as your output. Then wherever you are going to consume the response/output simply parse back to the array/object then utilize as necessary. For example if you are receiving multiple records in the response and you want to insert those records into a table you could utilize the stringified array/object in a script step then loop through the values and insert into the respective tables.