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Access Recipe Properties from Custom Actions

jimbarryatpanda — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 14:17:46 GMT

when building a custom action, Is there a way to access the calling recipe properties*** ?

something like this would be great, but *_dp* does not compile:

_dp('{"pill_type":"job_context","path":["master_job_id"]}')

*** specifically, the properties that are interactively available in the default "properties" object, such as [Recipe ID], [Recipe name], [Recipe path], [Master job id], [Calling recipe id], ...

Re: Access Recipe Properties from Custom Actions

shivakumara — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:06:24 GMT

Hi @jimbarryatpanda ,

Can you please give more details about " but *_dp* does not compile:" so that I can help you out.

Thanks and Regards,

Shivakumara Avadhani

Re: Access Recipe Properties from Custom Actions

gary1 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:51:27 GMT

You can't access them directly. Just make input parameters and pass them into the action.

Re: Access Recipe Properties from Custom Actions

gary1 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:52:59 GMT

This is how data pills are encoded. Copy a data pill from the Workato UI and paste them into a text editor.

=_dp('{"pill_type":"output","provider":"workato_variable","line":"11c43824","path":["amount"]}')

Re: Access Recipe Properties from Custom Actions

jimbarryatpanda — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 19:26:59 GMT

yes, I am trying to access facts about the calling recipe properties directly, without creating an input parameter and manually assigning the value. I am doing this now and wanted to remove the input parameter.

This is a feature request for the Custom Connector SDK.

Maybe all the "properties" from the calling recipe (including the action step-number) could be passed into a hash for easy access??

I need values like the following:

[calling action step number],
[Recipe ID],
[Recipe name],
[Recipe path],
[Master job id],
[Calling recipe id], ...