Output array.string to Record in Flow Designer

DylanB
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Hi all, I'm thinking this should be a pretty simple solution but I'm not finding it. I'm using the Active Directory v2 spoke to get the list of groups that a user is a member of. That returns an array.string output. I'd like to take that list of groups and post it as a comment on a SCTASK. 

 

Dragging the data pill to the work notes comments results in the following. What am I doing wrong?

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No luck on that either. While looking at that look up action, I noticed that the PowerShell step outputs all the data that it looks up in a string format, including the membership.

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This gave me the idea to copy that Look Up User in AD action and remove all the Powershell attributes it looks up except for group membership, then store the Powershell output string as the membership output. That allows the membership to be displayed in string format to be used elsewhere in the flow. 

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It's not the prettiest output so I might go back and do some tidying up on it, but for now, it works well enough.

 

I'm not sure why other solutions weren't giving us the info we were looking for. I have to assume there is some bug with the AD spoke and this array. Additionally, this action should probably be OOB for this spoke. Being able to get full group membership for a user can be useful. 

 

I want to thank you all for responding. I learned a lot from this discussion and appreciate all the feedback!

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So from the post i understand that you want to post it to work notes.

So instead of an action to convert array to string, use Update Record action to update the current record. And in the worknotes, use script to set convert to string

 

 


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Hi @SanjivMeher, are you able to provide an example of what that would look like? Adding scripts to a field like that is new to me. 

Something like this.

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Hi @SanjivMeher, I have it set to this but it's returning the runtime value of the array.

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You need to return JSON.stringify(array). Also not a good idea to name a variable array.

You can name it

var marray = fd_data.<>;

return JSON.stringify(marray);


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