Flow Designer - Catalog Task variables

[Patrick Quinlan]

I am just getting into investigating Flow Designer. I'm attempting to create a Flow for an existing catalog item that is currently using a workflow. In the catalog item variables, we have container variables so that the input variables display correctly and it has never been a problem while using a workflow. 

The catalog task that is created as a result of the Flow, however, seems to ignore the formatting variables. In fact, when selecting the variables when building the Flow, the 'container start' variables aren't available.

I attempted to duplicate the container variables as 'flow catalog variables' inside Flow Designer but this didn't seem to work either. 

The RITM that is created using the Flow displays the variables correctly. 

What am I missing?

[Maik Skoddow]

Hi @Patrick Quinlan ,

can you please provide more details! Any screenshots also would be helpful to understand your issue.

Kind regards
Maik

[Patrick Quinlan]

@Maik Skoddow I have Container Start and Container End variables on my catalog item so that the variables are displayed in multiple columns. These container variables don't seem to work with Flow Designer. When I select the variables for the 'Create Catalog Task' action in Flow Designer, the container variables aren't included. I've included two screenshots....one catalog task created with the standard workflow editor, and one created with flow designer. 

[Maik Skoddow]

Hi @Patrick Quinlan ,

thanks for your reply. Now I understand your question but the really interesting screenshot you did not provide.

To see the differences better, two screenshots would be helpful, one showing the list of all variable definitions and the other showing the variable selection dialog in Flow Designer.

Kind regards
Maik

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[Patrick Quinlan]

@Maik Skoddow Here are the two screenshots you mentioned. As you can see the Container Start variables aren't included in the Flow Designer variable dialog selection. These are 'multicolumn' at order 450, 'multicolumn2' at order 675, 'mulitcolumn3' at order 875, and 'mesr_container_start' at order 1300