Flow to Smartsheet - At risk wants a bool but flow sends a string

[jmatherAIPM]

Hello!

We're trying to send the bool value of True to a checkbox column within Smartsheet called At Risk.  According to the Smartsheet API doc, https://smartsheet-platform.github.io/api-docs/#cell-reference, the checkbox cell type should accept either a boolean or a string:

CHECKBOX

Boolean: true if the checkbox is checked, false if unchecked, no value if the cell hasn't been touched yet. string: a free-form text value.

We're sending the following:

{
  "At Risk": "true",
  "Task Name": "test email",
  "Status": "Not Started",
  "Assigned To": "jmather@healthylife.com",
  "Start Date": "2019-04-03T18:26:50Z",
  "% Complete": "0%"
}

And it returns the following error:

{
"errorCode": 1042,
"message": "The value for cell in column 6111850942228356, true, did not conform to the strict requirements for type CHECKBOX.",
"refId": "zxpu9w39e20d",
"detail": {
"index": 0
}
}

We've tried many different things to get this to work, but the boolean true message we send always gets converted into a string (which should work anyway according to the documentations for Smartsheet linked above).  We've tried different capitolizations, 1/0 instead of true/false, and using an expression to convert the string to a bool but none of them work.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thank you!

[v-zhos-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @jmatherAIPM ,

I have made some tests on my side, it has the same issue with you.

From the API document, it says we can set the checkbox value to 'true' or 'false'.

I was also confused about that.

I have made a test to return the checkbox value, it was shown as  value to 'true' or 'false'.

Perhaps the checkbox value can't be set via flow, you can only click it in the Smartsheet.

Best Regards,

Community Support Team _ Zhongys

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[jmatherAIPM · Accepted solution]

@v-zhos-msft Thank you very much for checking it out 🙂

Workaround:  We ended up using a dropdown/picklist column instead of a checkbox column and that worked great.