Trouble Accessing variables from inbound action

[DanielCordick]

I am having trouble accessing the variable in my inbound action from my workflow

this is my inbound action that is used to kick the workflow off.

var userEmail = email.from;

var grUser = new GlideRecord(sys_user);
grUser.addQuery('email', userEmail.tostring());
grUser.query();

if (grUser.next()) {

var userName = grUser.user_name;
var fullName = grUser.name;
}

var wflow = new Workflow();
var wfId = wflow.getWorkflowFromName("BYODDeviceOptIn") ;

var vars= {};
vars.UserName = userName;

wflow.startFlow (wfId, current, current.operation() , vars) ;

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In my workflow, I have tried using workflow.inputs.UserName and workflow.variables.UserName but i when i log both of those i get undefined 

How can i get the Value of UserName in my workflow?

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi,

Did you define the workflow inputs?

you should be using workflow.inputs.UserName to get the value

Regards
Ankur

[DanielCordick]

I actually didn't define any workflow inputs... should i have? would my input be UserName? type = string?

[Ankur Bawiskar]

As per docs you need to defined the input variables

Workflow input variables

Regards
Ankur

[Ankur Bawiskar · Accepted solution]

Hi,

See the example here

1) Create workflow input variable

2) Then send the data like this

var inc = new GlideRecord('incident');
inc.get('8d44ecd62ff56010aedd55f62799b691');
inc.short_description = 'test';
inc.update();
var wflow = new Workflow();
var wfId = wflow.getWorkflowFromName("Incident") ;

var vars= {};

// you need to set the value in the same column name u_username

vars.u_username = 'my_id_to_workflow';

wflow.startFlow (wfId, inc, inc.operation() , vars) ;

3) Then access it like this

// u_username is the column name which you need to use to access the value

gs.info("workflow value"+ workflow.inputs.u_username);

Output:

Regards
Ankur