Output array.string to Record in Flow Designer

DylanB · ‎02-27-2024

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?

DylanB · ‎02-29-2024

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.

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.

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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Narsing1 · ‎02-28-2024

Can you try in this way.

Change the Output variable type to "String"
Remove the step where you are converting Array.String to string
In your script step, do like this.

var inp = inputs.array_string;
var members = JSON.stringify(inp["Member Of"]);
outputs.output_string = members;

If the above is not working, use this

var inp = JSON.parse(inputs.array_string);
var members = JSON.stringify(inp["Member Of"]);
outputs.output_string = members;

Thanks,

Narsing

DylanB · ‎02-29-2024

Hi @Narsing1, unfortunately, those didn't do the trick for me. I think that something must be up with the runtime value that is being passed to the convert action. It says it's passing the array and the previous step does grab the correct array, but on the convert action, it's only grabbing this.