Lookup Select Box variable on Flow Designer

[Dariussiriuse]

Hi everyone!

I am finding myself into a situation where I have a table with simple fields {name | number | sys_id}.

I created a catalog item that has a Lookup Select Box to get the values from that table.

Moving forwards, I created a flow to handle the submission of this request.

My issue is that when I pull in the variables from the catalog, the variable in question is of type 'choice' but displays no values inside of it? So, on a condition of 'if (get catalog variables -> var1)  |  is  |  --none--' , the '--none--' will have no other choices to select. 

I tested as well a copy of itself using only a Select Box, but my issue with this is that on the Catalog Item, I can't bring the table where the records are for choice, and therefore I have no choices displayed (unless I create those choices manually onto that variable configuration page). But I don't want this, I need the user to be able to input those new choices via record. And the Lookup Select Box is perfect for this!

But yeah.. I can't get the choices onto the flow.

Any ideas how I can make them appear?

regards,

Darius

[frankcoates]

My workaround is making a flow variable of type String, then returning the lookup select box value to it in a script using the trigger and avoiding Get Catalog Variables. For example, the script to set the flow variable would simply be:

// Substitute "variable_name" with the name of your variable
// This will return whatever the Lookup value field is set to.
return fd_data.trigger.request_item.variables.variable_name + "";