Convert Text into Dictionary

Alternatively, could you state the reason for which you need dictionary type. Lets try to reverse engineer your problem statement.

Looking at the values there, is the input string something like "[id:,category:Cat 1,desc:tickets,code:12348,amount:123.43]"...? If that's the case, there's no easy way of casting that to a dictionary - you'll have to figure out a way of parsing that string into individual fields using functions like split().

AFAIK, we don't have direct function to do so. Need to write expression rules to extract data from text, and form data for dictionary.

Maybe this helps: forum.appian.com/.../Text_Functions.html

@mikej117 as per your requirement, the steps which you have mention for this solution is correct, there might be some small mistake. However for such requirement where i have a Text Data type which holds the JSON values, we can get that data back in List in Dictionary Format using a!fromJson() function, as i have tested it and working perfectly, below is the Code, please have a look on that which may help you to resolve your problem Statement

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load(
/*Storing Some Data Into local variable*/
local!data: a!queryEntity(
entity: cons!EmployeeDetailsConstant,
query: a!query(
pagingInfo: a!pagingInfo(
startIndex: 1,
batchSize: 50
)
)
).data,

/*Converting the data into JSON Text and storing into a local variable*/
local!jsonData: a!toJson(local!data),

/*To get the Type of local!jsonData*/
/*typename(typeof(local!jsonData))*/

/*Fetching the data from JSON Text to List of Dictionary Format*/
a!fromJson(local!jsonData)

)
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I Hope this will Help You

Thanks for all the useful replies. I think that we will probably change the format of the Text string so it contains JSON formatted data, which will make it easy to convert, whilst not affecting the data type.

@mikej117 that's Correct, here 'local!jsonData' is of type Text and contains JSON Form of Data which again gets converted back to List of Dictionary Format using fromJson().

Happy to help