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Hello community,
Is it possible to add values from a list of string of string to fields where string 1 of the list maps to field 1 of the CDT, sting 2 to field 2 of the CDT etc.When I pass the list of strings to the CDT as a parameter in the expression it passes al the strings to field 1.I want to make the expression dynamic, so for example looping through the list of strings and add them to CDT field 1, next CDT field 2 etc.I do not know how to set the values of the CDT fields based on their index. All the fields in the CDT are of type text.To illustrate for example CDT Alphabet with fields Letter1: "", Letter2: "", Letter3:"".List of String{("A"),("B"),("C") etc.Now I want for the length of the string, adding A B C to Letter1, Letter2, Letter3 using a Loop. (is it possible to use index of CDT field instead of fieldname?)My second question is, is it possible to just add the whole list as a parameter when I cast it to a certain type, so that every item in the list will be seen as an individual parameter?
Kind Regards,
Erik
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You will want to take a look at the Dictionary Manipulation plugin - very handy for these types of use cases:
a!localVariables( local!cdt: {letter1: null, letter2: null, letter3: null, letter4: null, letter5: null}, local!list: {"A","B","C"}, fn!createdictionary( keys: index(fn!getkeysfromdictionary(local!cdt),1+enumerate(count(local!list)),{}), values: local!list ) )
Thank you Chris,
I am not sure if I am allowed to use plugins .I guess I have to think of a less dynamic solution.
In that case you may have to be a little less dynamic, casting to your CDT something like below. You would want to wrap the casting in a rule, then call whenever necessary with the list input such as: rule!createMyCdt(local!listOfValues).
a!localVariables( local!list: {"A","B","C"}, 'type!{urn:com:appian:types}Your_CDT'( Letter1: index(local!list,1,null), Letter2: index(local!list,2,null), Letter3: index(local!list,3,null), Letter4: index(local!list,4,null), Letter5: index(local!list,5,null) ) )