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How to use text value from collection

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Posted on by Microsoft Employee

Hi,

How can I use these collection values? It says that "Invalid argument type (Table). Expecting a Text value instead."

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    timl Profile Picture
    37,287 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    @Anonymous 

    The following should return what you're looking for:

    Notify(First(varOrderCollection).ClientName)

    A collection is a table of records and it is designed generally to store multiple records. Therefore, varOrderCollection.ClientName is not valid syntax because it does not specify exactly which row in the collection you want to retrieve.

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    What if you wanted to retrieve the second and not the First?

  • timl Profile Picture
    37,287 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    @cardinalnight 

    This will return the second record

    Index(varOrderCollection, 2).ClientName

     

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