How to properly get value from variable used in a catalog item?

[ericgilmore]

Created a service catalog item, with multiple variables.

Created a workflow with a notification activity that sends email upon form submission.

Used variables from the catalog item in the notification (advance, message) field via ${current.variables.var_name} which seems to do what I needed,

until, I realized that one variable, a Selectbox was sending the "text" attribute and not the actual "value" associated with the Selectbox item.

i.e. sending time{ 3:00 AM } text,   instead of time{ 03 } value

Is it a simple matter of adding a dot reference to traverse, i.e. ${current.variables.var_name.getValue()}

Or is that too simple.

--Thanks in advance

[Kalaiarasan Pus]

Without using getDisplayValue, I do not think the label of the choice is returned. Can you check your choice value definition and check if the text and the label is not the same.

[ericgilmore]

Here's the setup;

And for the selectbox options:

  - "3:00 AM" text returned with ${current.variables.class_begins_hour} in the notification activity message field

  - nothing returned with ${current.variables.class_begins_hour.getDisplayValue()}

[Kalaiarasan Pus]

Create a email notification script and use the following in the script

template.print(current.variables.sample_select_box);

Add the mail script call to the notification as

${mail_script:emai_notification_script_name}

[ericgilmore]

While this would most likely be an easy thing for an admin, I am not. As such, I don't have access to [Helsinki > System Notification > Email > Notifications?]

Which means I'm limited to what I can do inside the [Helsinki > Workflow Editor] using the [Core Activity > Notifications > Create Event] activity at this point.