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I am using the Namely API to request the results of a report into a Microsft Flow. I then need to take the results of this and convert into a CSV table. The problem I am running into is the data is an array inside of another array. The JSON schema that is generate is as follows:

{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
 "reports": {
 "type": "array",
 "items": {
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
 "id": {
 "type": "string"
 },
 "type": {
 "type": "string"
 },
 "columns": {
 "type": "array",
 "items": {
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
 "name": {
 "type": "string"
 },
 "type": {
 "type": "string"
 },
 "label": {
 "type": "string"
 }
 }
 }
 },
 "content": {
 "type": "array",
 "items": {
 "type": "array"
 }
 }
 }
 }
 }
 }
}

The part that I am interested in is in red.

Basically, this an array of "reports" (which will always be only one array) which contains an array of "columns" (the column headers) and the array of "content" (which is the data I need). Some sample data is below. Does anybody know how I can use flow to create a CSV using this information?

{
 "reports": [
 {
 "id": "53a4340a-b025-4d32-bd8f-2aa435b268b7",
 "type": "profile",
 "columns": [
 {
 "name": "profiles_guid",
 "type": "text",
 "label": "GUID"
 },
 {
 "name": "profiles_first_name",
 "type": "text",
 "label": "First name"
 },
 {
 "name": "profiles_last_name",
 "type": "text",
 "label": "Last name"
 },
 {
 "name": "profiles_email",
 "type": "text",
 "label": "Company email"
 },
 {
 "name": "profiles_start_date",
 "type": "date",
 "label": "Start date"
 },
 {
 "name": "profiles_employee_type",
 "type": "text",
 "label": "Employee type"
 },
 {
 "name": "profiles_category_6696",
 "type": "text",
 "label": "Department"
 }
 ],
 "content": [
 [
 "739675e7-2041-46a7-8965-691a5dac37cc",
 "Alice",
 "James",
 "AJames@none.com",
 "09/03/2019",
 "Full Time",
 "IT"
 ],
 [
 "8dba6571-abba-4fbc-b0b6-9858af6858e2",
 "Paul",
 "Jones",
 "PJones@none.com",
 "08/01/2019",
 "Part Time",
 "Human Resources"
 ]
 ],
 "links": {}
 }
 ],
 "meta": {},
 "links": {},
 "linked": {}
}

Thanks in advance,

Paul

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HI @PaulT

Please see the screenshots below:

I have passed the JSON as an object in the intialise variable action and used the compose actions for the result.

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Thanks @yashag2255 but that only seems to get me the column headers. What I am trying to get to is the Content section. What I would like to end up with is a CSV with the following data:

"739675e7-2041-46a7-8965-691a5dac37cc","Alice","James","AJames@none.com","09/03/2019","Full Time","IT"
"8dba6571-abba-4fbc-b0b6-9858af6858e2","Paul","Jones","PJones@none.com","08/01/2019","Part Time","Human Resources"

I am stuggling with taking an array of objects and getting them to be the rows of a CSV

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Hi @PaulT

You can update your flow as:
Expression used on Append to Array Variable: {"Key1":"items('Apply_to_each_2')[0]","Key2":"items('Apply_to_each_2')[1]","Key2":"items('Apply_to_each_2')[3]","Key3":"items('Apply_to_each_2')[4]","Key4":"items('Apply_to_each_2')[5]","Key5":"items('Apply_to_each_2')[6]","Key6":"items('Apply_to_each_2')[7]"}

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