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Extract Field Date From Repeating Section

  • December 21, 2017
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I need to two fields in a repeating section to get written to a list.

  • ResponsibleBU
  • CompletionDate

I'm not well skilled in XML so can someone please tell me what I should fill in in the second image below?

XML Source - obviously I need to reference the variable "WorkActivitiesDataExtract", but what is the correct reference/syntax I should use?

And the XPath to retrieve the value of the two fields.

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  • December 21, 2017

As XML source use list field  (item property) which you have repeating section connected to.

as XPath expression use simply:

//ResponsibleBU


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  • Author
  • December 21, 2017

Hi Marian

Thanks for your reply. My thought is that I should use the XML stored in the WorkActivitiesDataExtract variable from the Extract Field from Repeating Section UDA, and then output using XPath. (see below).

I actually have a total of 4 fields that I need to output from WorkActivitiesDataExtract.

I tried using the item property like you suggested and it doesn't work.Also the workflow error-ed with the following message:

Coercion Failed: Unable to transform the input lookup data into the requested type.


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  • Scholar
  • December 22, 2017

I do not know your UDA and I do not know what output it provides in WorkActivitiesDataExtract 

as I said, if you use as XML source the filed where you store repeating section control content then this should work.


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  • Author
  • December 22, 2017

If I I output the XML to a column - can I use the same XPath to get what I need?


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  • Scholar
  • December 22, 2017

Sure