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Return object object, but its not null

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I have this code:

// Select all date elements that are not disabled
let availableDates = document.querySelectorAll('.calendar__date-container:not(.is-disabled) .calendar__date');

// Log or process the available dates
availableDates.forEach(date => {
console.log(date.textContent); // Replace with your processing logic
});

Which does work in console on edge, but if I try to put it in Power Automate Desktop, it just returns object object.

I have tried adding a new return line as the following:

return JSON.stringify(date.textContent);

But still the same. I can read that it might be because its an object, but can't get it to return the values..

btw, tried this https://masteringjs.io/tutorials/fundamentals/foreach-object, with some help from chatGPT, but still no luck, again it does seem to work in console.

let availableDates = document.querySelectorAll('.calendar__date-container:not(.is-disabled) .calendar__date');
let datesArray = [];

availableDates.forEach(date => {
datesArray.push(date.textContent);
});

return JSON.stringify(datesArray.join(', ')); // Replace with your processing logic

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Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

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PAD can only return a single string as output from any scripts, and it only works with a return statement - the console.log command does not work, as it's not running in a console.

So, if you want to return an array, you need to join it. No idea why you're using JSON.stringify() here, as it's not JSON. I'm pretty sure simply doing return datesArray.join(', '); should do the trick.

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Thanks for your answer.
JSON.stringify() was because I read that it might be able to convert what was in the array to a string.
Re: Fail to read an array returned from javascript... - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com)

let availableDates = document.querySelectorAll('.calendar__date-container:not(.is-disabled) .calendar__date'); let datesArray = []; availableDates.forEach(date => { datesArray.push(date.textContent); }); return datesArray.join(', '); // Replace with your processing logic
I tried this now, but still object Object.

This is the data in availableDates:
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Did you actually encapsulate your code into a function call like so:

Function ExecuteScript() { let availableDates = document.querySelectorAll('.calendar__date-container:not(.is-disabled) .calendar__date'); let datesArray = []; availableDates.forEach(date => { datesArray.push(date.textContent); }); return datesArray.join(', '); }

This is required in the Run JavaScript function on web page action.

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