How to retrieve string name of selected list items in flow designer

[Brian Hofmeiste]

Hello!  

My form has a list of departments and users are able to select multiples.  In flow designer I want to grab the names of all departments they selected.  Is this possible with just flow designer or do i need a script?  If a script, can you suggest something?  thanks so much.

Brian

[Voona Rohila]

Hi @Brian Hofmeiste 

Can you explain in detail of your requirement? You want to access all the department names instead of sys_id's in flow designer?

[Brian Hofmeiste]

On our request form we ask them to select departments like this:

Then we want to take the departments they selected and paste them into the description field of a new story we created.  Like this.

But this does not work - the "who is involved"  is a list object so the story description shows nothing when its created.  

How do I get the selected list items into the story description field? 

[Mani A]

You need one more script action step or use flow variable step before this step ..sample code

var selDep = current.variables.departments.toString().split(','); // Adjust field name as needed

var departmentNames = [];
for (var i = 0; i < selDep.length; i++) {

var deptRecord = new GlideRecord('cmn_department'); // Adjust table name
if (deptRecord.get(selDep[i])) {
departmentNames.push(deptRecord.name); // Assuming 'name' is the field for department name
}
}gs.info('Selected Departments: ' + departmentNames.join(', '));

[Brian Hofmeiste]

This article seems relevant... looks like the list collector is providing a comma separated list to flow designer... bummer.  This means I have to parse out that string into an array so i can lookup each or the sysIDs.... unless you can think of a better way.

Unable to use a list collector variable in the Flow Designer 'For Loop' action - Support and Trouble...