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PAD Output Variable with Cloud Flow

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Dear Community,

 

I did a desktop flow to web scrap a post office website from their store locator section, built with Google Map and embedded in their website.

 

In the action "Extract data from web page", I have selected store data as "Variable".

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Then I passed it onto the Output Variable.

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Back in the Cloud flow, I called the Desktop flow and response came back in the BranchLocations variable.

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The data are csv like with three columns, no headers. For example

Post Office Name 1, Address, Distance

Post Office Name 2, Address, Distance

Post Office Name 3, Address, Distance

Post Office Name 4, Address, Distance

.

.

.

 

My trouble is, now I don't know what to do with it. 

My goal is to extract three more variables for Name, Address and Distance so I could pass them back to PVA.

I tried to parse it but it's not in JSON format so it didn't work.

 

The Output variables may contain many rows of the returned locations.

I only need to pick the top three rows (sorted based on the distance) and ignore the rest.

 

I am thinking maybe I need to format them as JSON like so I could these parameters separately when I return them back to PVA as adaptive card.

 "PostOffice1": {
 "Name": "",
 "Address": "",
 "Distance": ""
 },

 "PostOffice2": {
 "Name": "",
 "Address": "",
 "Distance": ""
 },

 

 

Any suggestions on how I can manipulate the output variables in the cloud flow?

 

Thanks.

 

  • momlo Profile Picture
    1,527 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Hi @nhtkid 

    Web extraction gives you datatable, then, when you assign to output variable you are converting this to text if you used the default type, hence the output.

     

    Try changing the output variable to table to see if this passes table to the cloud flow.

     

  • nhtkid Profile Picture
    188 on at

    Thanks @momlo 

    The other option PAD has is to store as CSV. That should be give me the table output.

     

    Once I pass that CSV as a single output variable back to Cloud Flow, what function should I use to break them apart so I can handle the value individually? 

    Example, I need to use post office name 1, address and distance separately to pass onto my first adaptive card, and post office 2 cor second card and then the third.

     

    thanks.

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