What is your goal?I want to assign the value “Dog1” to the variable “friend1_name”
What is the problem?The scenario runs, but the variable ends up assigning
“{“response_text”:“Dog1”}” instead of just “Dog1”, which causes not valid Json in the next step.
When I try to to manipulate the text, e.g., with replacing/deleting parts of the string, I instead end up with an empty variable.
How should I do this?
What you’ve mapped into the Variable Value is a collection.
You need to select one step deeper, response_text instead of just the collection containing it.
If you are unable to get the correct array item consistently, you’ll need to learn how to use the “map” and “get” functions.
You can use the built-in functions map and get to access variables within an array.
To do this, you can use the built-in function map —
{{ map(complex array; key; [key for filtering]; [possible values for filtering separated by a comma]) }}
and the built-in function get (or first) —
{{ get(object or array; path) }}
so you get something that looks like this —
{{ first(map(1.questions; "answers_given.1.response_text"; "answers_given.question_text"; "Friends' NAME")) }}
(Make Input Markup: Copy-paste the above into the field, including start/end curly brackets for it to import as intended)
For more information, the function’s documentation can be found in the Help Centre and the “Mapping with Arrays” link below. You should also complete the tutorials in the Make Academy, especially Using get() and map() functions.
I’d recommend going through the Make Academy if you haven’t yet!
Here are some useful links and guides you can use to learn more on how to use the Make platform, apps, and app modules. I found these useful when I was learning Make, and hope they might benefit you too —
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