List values in Flow Designer are showing as sys_ids instead of Values

[Russ Heard3]

Hi,

First time creating a Flow in Flow Designer, want to send an email to interested parties about Failed Changes.

One of the Change columns I want to show on the email is the 'Region Affected' which is a Choice List of one to six regions.

The Regions are being returned as a list of sys_ids, rather than a list of text values.
Does this mean Choice Lists cannot be shown, or am I doing some thing wrong (as I suspect)?

Choice List 

Change record

Email Body generated 

Thanks!
Russ                       

[Allen Andreas]

Hi,

A list field's value consist of sys_ids.

You'd want to consider getting/using the displayValue of that field instead.

You can attempt to dot-walk to the reference table and then to the name field.

Please mark reply as Helpful/Correct, if applicable. Thanks!

[Troya1]

WE are talking about a LIST not a REFERENCE

[OlaN]

Hi, since a list basically only stores a comma-separated string of sys_ids, that is all you can get out of it.

If you need to get the display values you will need to create a script step/script action that converts all sys_ids to display values, and return them to be consumed later in your flow

[Russ Heard3]

Allen & OlaN, 
thanks for your replies, but I'm none the wiser (did say it was my first time with Flow Designer 🙂 ).

There could be up to 6 values in the list so that makes it even more complicated for me - I guess some sort of loop would be needed. 

I'm not sure how I'd use any script to get the display values. I want to put them in the mail body.

Do I need to set an initial action to get the values, then use them in separate Send Email action? 
Or use the script button on the mail body itself? 

None of the questions I've seen on here show how to set the script and then use the variable returned from the script.