Loop action issue - doesn't act?

[dirk_s]

I have an issue with a very simple loop for debugging purposes. As you can see from the rest of the script before, I created “var_array”. Console tells me, that I have 10 records in the array (as defined earlier).

Now looping through </> array should show me each record from the JSON array.

Instead I get this:

Seems like its not really looping through the array?

[CarsonRedCliffLabs]

@dirk_s did you ever solve this?
I’m also having an issue with the Loop Action.
Trying to look up a view in Tape and then send an email alert with a list of URL’s for the items in that view which need attention. It is technically looping…but not returning unique URL’s.
aka if the view has 5 items, the email contains a list of 5 URL’s, but they are all the same URL, they have not progressed forward in the loop like I would expect…

[Jason]

@CarsonRedCliffLabs I think yours can be fixed by converting your calculation to a script.

A few examples of working loops:

Now this is one I built to try and duplicate what you were doing:

however when I then convert this to use a calculation:

I end up with the same URL multiple times

[dirk_s]

How that we see the difference… I also had the feeling(!) that I had trouble with calculations while scripts worked as expected. I never did any more investigation, when I found out I used a calculation instead of the script action.

Probably one should dig a bit deeper into the calculation action and find our what happens.

[CarsonRedCliffLabs]

Thank you @Jason !
Yes it appears that should solve my problem. I don’t fully understand why it works correctly in the Script but not the Calculation version of that step…maybe @Tim could chime in on that.
But for now, at least a script solution is possible.

[Tim]

Unfortunately this is a known issue which was discovered in the past here:

Error Adding Time Values Inconsistently via a calculated variable

We have a frustrating error where an automation is finding certain time-log records and supposed to add up the decimal value of the collected time logs. Adding it up via the automation provides incorrect values. It will however give the right answer when the ‘loop’ action adds the decimal values into our number field directly, but not when we try adding them all in a workflow variable then just updating the final number field once with the sum. This screenshot shows that it’s getting the value…

We will at some point resolve this, however it will require a slight rework of the “Calculation” action. Until then, we encourage you to use the “Execute Script” action with variables, which is way more powerful and basically a superset of the “Calculation” action in terms of functionality.

Thanks for your patience &
We will keep you posted on this

Cheers
Tim