Appending a field within a Flow

[Ben Draeger]

Hi Folks, 

I'm building a flow for a catalog item and looking to append to the short description of the catalog task that is being created based on the type request submitted. 

I have a few 'IF' steps in the flow to append '- Data', '- Voice', '- Equipment' to the short description depending on what the customer checked on the form. 

The issue I'm having is when using the data pills to perform this only the last IF step is taken into account as Flow doesn't seem to look at the current short description and add to it, but instead just takes into account the field at the 'Create Catalog Item' step which is Campus-Building. 

For example, if the customer submits the form with Data and Voice ticked, then the short description should be:

Campus-Building-Data-Voice

But instead, I'm getting:

Campus-Building-Voice

Is this possible to do using the data pills or is there script instead that is required?

Thanks!

[Saurabh Gupta · Accepted solution]

Hi,

If you want to to use data pill you should consider all the combination of the selection like below

If(Data ticked && Voice ticked && Equipment ticked )

Campus-Building-Data-Voice-Equipment 

else if (Data ticked && Voice ticked)

Campus-Building-Data-Voice

else if (Voice ticked && Equipment ticked)

Campus-Building-Voice-Equipment 

else if (Data ticked && Equipment ticked)

Campus-Building-Data-Equipment 

else if(Data ticked )

Campus-Building-Data

else if(Voice ticked )

Campus-Building-Voice

else if(Equipment ticked )

Campus-Building-Equipment

But through script it is really easy to return like below

var sd="Campus-Building";

if(Data ticked )

sd+="-Data"

if(Voice ticked )

sd+="-Voice "

if(Equipment ticked )

sd+="-Equipment "

return sd;

Above code is just pseudo code. You should do it with proper syntax.

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Regards,
Saurabh