How can I iterate over a smart value list's element's property to see if it is equal to smart value?

[Nathan Given]

In my Jira automation I have a webhook that returns this JSON:

{ "entities": [ { "id": "1", "displayName": "Display name 1", "description": "" }, { "id": "2", "displayName": "display name 2", "description": "" } ] }

I'm trying to iterate over every "entity" to see if the "displayName" value equals my Jira automation smart value, {{displayNameCheck}}

I've managed to get it to kind of work by hard-coding the value of {{displayNameCheck}} into my if statement, but I can't seem to get it to work with the smart value.

Here is what is working:

{{#webhookResponse.body.entities}} {{#if(equals(displayName, "Display name 1"))}} {{.}} {{/}} {{/}}

However, I don't want to hard-code "Display name 1" into my if statement. I want to use {{displayNameCheck}}.

However, 

{{#webhookResponse.body.entities}} {{#if(equals(displayName, displayNameCheck))}} {{.}} {{/}} {{/}}

does not work.

Nor does:

{{#webhookResponse.body.entities}} {{#if(equals(displayName, {{displayNameCheck}}))}} {{.}} {{/}} {{/}}

I've tried using advanced branching, however, advanced branching has a restriction on isolation (any changes in the branch won't be visible in the main rule), and I need to pass variables around to perform some API calls later in the automation ( link )

Is there any way to accomplish what I'm trying to do (iterate over a JSON array to see if one of the element properties equals my existing smart value)?

Thank you,

Nathan

[Tuncay Senturk]

Hi @Nathan Given 

Can you try this?

{{#webhookResponse.body.entities}}
   {{#if(equals(displayName, ^displayNameCheck))}}
      {{.}}
   {{/}}
{{/}}

 As far as I know, the ^ symbol is used to access variables/smart values outside the context.