Iterating over smart value and lookup table

Giedrius Daugmaudis

I'm creating automation, that would look at form submitted, and would provide groups based on selections ( may be multiple).

But I'm getting errors when iterating
"Failed to get value for adGroups.get(.): {{#env.split(", ")}}{{adGroups.get(.)}}{{/}}"

I know that lookup objects/tables have values.
Looks like the iteration is converting string into something else?
Or am I calling the iterated object wrong in this case? 

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Giedrius Daugmaudis 

For a question like this, context is important for the community to help.  Please post the following:

• describe the problem your rule is trying to solve; that is, "why do this?"
• an image of your complete automation rule in a single image for continuity
• images of any relevant actions / conditions / branches
• an image of the complete audit log details showing the rule execution

Until we see those...

 

Your rule appears to be using a lookup table / objects action to gather some data, and then you are trying to access that table within a long-format iterator over a list using the table's get() function.  That will not work.

Long-format iterators can only access data from that scope and lower.  Thus, your table data cannot be seen to use the implied {{.}} list element as a parameter.  (And, even if that worked, there is another old defect where long-format iterators calling a function with a parameter will always pass the first item and not any others.)

Without seeing your entire rule for context, I suspect you will need to use some form of dynamic list searching with regular expressions as I describe in this article:

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Automation-articles/Automation-concepts-Dynamic-searches-within-a-list/ba-p/2834235

 

If you post the requested information from above, that may help the community offer additional suggestions.  Thanks!

 

Kind regards,
Bill