Flow Designer - Scratchpad Equivalent

[James150]

Hi,

Building a few Flows for our Service Catalog here and trying to work out if there's an equivalent in Flow designer for g_scratchpad.

For example, we have a ticket where the user specifies the environment they need access to (Dev, Dev 2, Test, Test 2, UAT, Prod etc.). This results in a small change in the parameter I pass to an action later on. What I'd like to do is update a scratchpad variable with 'environment=prod', then the action is just set to use the scratchpad variable - rather than duplicate the action 8 times in every if statement.

Is there a Flow equivalent of the scratchpad? I've seen Flow catalog variables but it's not clear how you set and use these.

Thanks,

James

[Goran WitchDoc]

Hi James,

Hard to say exactly how to do without perhaps a screenshot of what you are trying to achieve in more detail. But there isn't any "scratchpad" feature in flow designer and you shouldn't really need it since you can access all "data" from every step. The worst case is that you would need to do a custom action that takes the user variable as an input, you do the logic and output would be the parameter you use later on.

Does that make sense?

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[Travis Rogers]

Hi James - ServiceNow released the scratchpad equivalent for Flow Designer with Quebec, now called Flow Variables. Enjoy! 

What’s new with Flow Designer in Quebec