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How to read fact/values from JSON?

Hello Everyone.

 

I have managed to extract the attachment of a Teams message in JSON, which partly looks like this:

ianwuk_0-1673330665087.png

For the above key and value, how can I make it so I can interact with them?  E.g. create a condition 'if "Monitor status" contains DOWN then do something?

 

Many thanks for any help.

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Hopefully this gets what you're looking for. Note that I've just got a manual trigger and storing the JSON directly in the Compose for this example.

 

See full flow below. I'll go into each of the actions.

grantjenkins_0-1673338320776.png

 

Compose contains the JSON data you sent through. You would already have this as part of the trigger attachment content.

grantjenkins_1-1673338411674.png

 

XML is a Compose that converts the JSON data to XML so we can apply XPath expressions. Note that I've also added a root element to ensure it's valid XML. The expression used is:

xml(json(concat('{"root": ', outputs('Compose'), '}')))

//Your expression would likely look like the following:
xml(json(concat('{"root": ', triggerBody()?['attachments'][0]['content'], '}')))

grantjenkins_2-1673338478600.png

 

Condition checks to see if any items within any of the facts arrays have a name containing 'Monitor status' and a value containing 'DOWN'. If at least one item is returned, then the Condition will return true and would run your Reply in channel with a message in the Yes branch. The expression for the condition is:

length(xpath(outputs('XML'), '//sections/facts[contains(name, "Monitor status") and contains(value, "DOWN")]'))

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@ianwuk That's some crazy (horrible) JSON you've got there 🙂

 

See full flow below. I'll go into each of the actions.

grantjenkins_0-1673412210464.png

 

Compose contains your JSON data.

grantjenkins_1-1673412265897.png

 

XML is a Compose that converts your Table data to XML. The expression also removes the style rows as they cause issues in the XML due to not having closing tags. The expression is below:

xml(concat('<table>', slice(outputs('Compose')?['text'], indexOf(outputs('Compose')?['text'], '<tbody>'))))

grantjenkins_2-1673412399441.png

 

Select Codes retrieves an array of the Stock Codes. It uses the following expressions:

//From
split(last(xpath(outputs('XML'), '//tbody/tr/td/text()')), ' ')

//Map
trim(item())

grantjenkins_3-1673412513461.png

 

Select Numbers retrieves all the numbers (will end up with an array of arrays in this instance). It uses the following expressions:

//From
xpath(outputs('XML'), '//tbody/tr/td/pre/code/text()')

//Map
split(trim(item()), decodeUriComponent('%0A'))

grantjenkins_4-1673412614444.png

 

Initialize variable total creates an integer variable called total that stores the total number of rows from the JSON. The expression used is:

length(body('Select_Codes'))

grantjenkins_5-1673412802944.png

 

Initialize variable index creates an integer variable called index initially set to 0. This will be uses when we loop over each of the rows in our Do Until loop.

grantjenkins_6-1673412883749.png

 

Initialize variable rows creates an array variable called rows. It's initially set to an empty array and will eventually contain all our objects (rows of data).

grantjenkins_7-1673412974254.png

 

Do until will continue to loop until index is equal to total. Each time through the loop index will be increased by 1. We use the value of index to retrieve the values from our arrays at that index to build up our objects. We then add the object to the rows array. Note that I've also changed the limits so Count is 1000 which will allow for the loop to run 1000 times (needs to be at least the same or more than the number of rows we have).

 

grantjenkins_8-1673413013980.png

 

Append to array variable rows will build up each object using the current index. The object will then be appended to the rows array. Below are the expressions used for each property:

//stock_code
body('Select_Codes')[variables('index')]

//total_sku_have_stock
int(trim(body('Select_Numbers')[0][variables('index')]))

//total_sku_enable
int(trim(body('Select_Numbers')[1][variables('index')]))

//enable_lower_than_stock_percentage
float(trim(body('Select_Numbers')[2][variables('index')]))

 

The full object expression is below (can just copy/paste this directly into the action).

{
    "stock_code": @{body('Select_Codes')[variables('index')]},
    "total_sku_have_stock": @{int(trim(body('Select_Numbers')[0][variables('index')]))},
    "total_sku_enable": @{int(trim(body('Select_Numbers')[1][variables('index')]))},
    "enable_lower_than_stock_percentage": @{float(trim(body('Select_Numbers')[2][variables('index')]))}
}

grantjenkins_9-1673413339143.png

 

Increment variable index increases the index variable by 1 each time through the loop so we can get the next set of data.

grantjenkins_10-1673413389720.png

 

After the loop has completed, the variable rows should contain all of our rows/data. We then have Create HTML table using the output from the rows variable. This should give us our HTML table with the correct data format.

grantjenkins_11-1673413465989.png

 

Below is what the HTML table would look like.

grantjenkins_14-1673414064926.png

 

XML Stock is a Compose that converts our rows to XML which will be used in the Condition.

xml(json(concat('{"root": { value:', variables('rows'), '}}')))

grantjenkins_12-1673413570095.png

 

Condition uses the following expression to check if any enable_lower_than_stock_percentage column >= 25. If true, then it will go into the Yes branch to run whatever you want to do.

length(xpath(outputs('XML_Stock'), '//root/value[enable_lower_than_stock_percentage >= 25]'))

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Hey @ianwuk 

 

Have you tried using "Parse JSON" action? For details see - https://zeitgeistcode.com/power-automate-parse-json/ 

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Thank you for replying @CFernandes 

 

Yes, I did a parse json and now I have this - is it correct?

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The fact I want is:


"name": "Monitor status ",
"value": "<p>DOWN</p>"

Many thanks!

grantjenkins
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@ianwuk Are you able to show your full JSON output from your Teams message? We should be able to achieve what you want without having to use a loop (Apply to each).


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Hey @ianwuk - Many loops makes it confusing\tricky.. Can you please paste the JSON payload as mentioned by @grantjenkins 

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@grantjenkins I can't show it all as it contains PII, but how would I go about, theoretically, doing this without a loop?

 

My flow works like this:

When a new channel message is added.

COMPOSE - triggerBody()?['attachments'][0]['content']

INITIALISE VARIABLE - Name: Facts, Type: String, Value: Output of COMPOSE.
PARSE JSON using schema of Output of COMPOSE.

APPLY TO EACH - SECTIONS (from the JSON).

APPLY TO EACH - FACTS

CONDITIONS: NAME = x AND VALUE = y (from FACTS)
ACTION - Reply in channel with a message


Not sure if that helps?  But thanks very much!

Would you be able to show the full JSON, but just change the values to something to remove the PII. It looks from your flow that you have an array called sections and within that an array of facts, but not sure without seeing it. Can definitely do it without a loop.


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@CFernandes  @grantjenkins 

Okay, here is the JSON is full.

{
"summary": "Site24x7 Alert",
"themeColor": "C63728",
"sections": [
{
"facts": [
{
"name": "Display Name",
"value": "<p>Zylker Monitor</p>"
},
{
"name": "Monitor Type",
"value": "<p>URL</p>"
},
{
"name": "Site monitored",
"value": "<p><a href=\"http://zylker.com\">http://zylker.com</a></p>"
},
{
"name": "Monitor status ",
"value": "<p>DOWN</p>"
},
{
"name": "Down since",
"value": "<p>10 Jan 2023 01:56:07 ICT</p>"
},
{
"name": "Downtime in UNIX Format",
"value": "<p>1673333772500</p>"
},
{
"name": "Customer Name",
"value": "<p>mspCustomer</p>"
},
{
"name": "Monitor Group Name",
"value": "<p>Zylker Web Group</p>"
},
{
"name": "Reason",
"value": "<p>Service Unavailable</p>"
},
{
"name": "Alarm Details",
"value": "<p><a href=\"https://www.site24x7.com/app/client#/alarms/412304000000025001/Summary\">https://www.site24x7.com/app/client#/alarms/412304000000025001/Summary</a></p>"
}
],
"activityTitle": "<p>Zylker Monitor is Down</p>",
"activitySubtitle": "<p>Website</p>",
"activityImage": "https://www.site24x7.com/app/static/images?name=site24x7-down-icon.png",
"markdown": true,
"startGroup": false
}
],
"potentialAction": [
{
"inputs": [
{
"isMultiSelect": false,
"choices": [
{
"display": "P",
"value": "18"
},
{
"display": "O",
"value": "17"
},
{
"display": "N",
"value": "16"
},
{
"display": "M",
"value": "15"
},
{
"display": "L",
"value": "14"
},
{
"display": "K",
"value": "13"
},
{
"display": "K",
"value": "12"
},
{
"display": "J",
"value": "11"
},
{
"display": "I",
"value": "10"
},
{
"display": "H",
"value": "9"
},
{
"display": "G",
"value": "8"
},
{
"display": "G",
"value": "7"
},
{
"display": "F",
"value": "6"
},
{
"display": "E",
"value": "5"
},
{
"display": "D",
"value": "4"
},
{
"display": "C",
"value": "3"
},
{
"display": "B",
"value": "2"
},
{
"display": "A",
"value": "1"
}
],
"@type": "MultichoiceInput",
"id": "technicianList",
"title": "Choose Technician",
"isRequired": true
}
],
"actions": [
{
"hideCardOnInvoke": false,
"target": "https://gadgets.zoho.com/office365/teamsconnector/action?zservice=Site24x7&requestFrom=US&method=pos...",
"body": "{\\\"monitor_id\\\":412304000000025001,\\\"technician_zuid\\\":\\\"{{technicianList.value}}\\\",\\\"thirdparty_service_id\\\":412304000031544017,\\\"msp_userid\\\":412304000000025001}",
"@type": "HttpPOST",
"@id": "1e448ad1-28c7-4944-9b00-07ea6098541a",
"name": "Ok",
"isPrimaryAction": false
}
],
"@type": "ActionCard",
"@id": "557340da-8834-4913-8089-40ec57365f70",
"name": "Assign Technician",
"isPrimaryAction": false
},
{
"actions": [
{
"hideCardOnInvoke": false,
"target": "https://gadgets.zoho.com/office365/teamsconnector/action?zservice=Site24x7&requestFrom=US&method=pos...",
"body": "{\\\"monitor_id\\\":412304000000025001,\\\"thirdparty_service_id\\\":412304000031544017,\\\"msp_userid\\\":412304000000025001}",
"@type": "HttpPOST",
"@id": "83c5e7ba-0d18-4eb9-a51a-c827cb633f30",
"name": "Confirm Mark as Maintenance",
"isPrimaryAction": false
}
],
"@type": "ActionCard",
"@id": "72921f76-e7fe-4cea-8ca3-73958c49680b",
"name": "Mark as Maintenance",
"isPrimaryAction": false
},
{
"targets": [
{
"os": "default",
"uri": "https://www.site24x7.com/login.html?serviceurl=%2Fapp%2Fclient&ncredirecturl=%2Fhome%2Fmonitors%2F41..."
}
],
"@type": "OpenUri",
"@id": "fb57eb17-01bb-4d3b-b307-3563ce569d81",
"name": "View Online Reports",
"isPrimaryAction": false
}
]
}

Hopefully this gets what you're looking for. Note that I've just got a manual trigger and storing the JSON directly in the Compose for this example.

 

See full flow below. I'll go into each of the actions.

grantjenkins_0-1673338320776.png

 

Compose contains the JSON data you sent through. You would already have this as part of the trigger attachment content.

grantjenkins_1-1673338411674.png

 

XML is a Compose that converts the JSON data to XML so we can apply XPath expressions. Note that I've also added a root element to ensure it's valid XML. The expression used is:

xml(json(concat('{"root": ', outputs('Compose'), '}')))

//Your expression would likely look like the following:
xml(json(concat('{"root": ', triggerBody()?['attachments'][0]['content'], '}')))

grantjenkins_2-1673338478600.png

 

Condition checks to see if any items within any of the facts arrays have a name containing 'Monitor status' and a value containing 'DOWN'. If at least one item is returned, then the Condition will return true and would run your Reply in channel with a message in the Yes branch. The expression for the condition is:

length(xpath(outputs('XML'), '//sections/facts[contains(name, "Monitor status") and contains(value, "DOWN")]'))

grantjenkins_4-1673338673658.png


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ianwuk
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Wow!  Thank you so much for the help and the detailed explanation @grantjenkins.

Can I bother you with a follow up question please?

I have another webhook that sends data to a Teams channel, and then I want to do something with it, based on a condition.

Again, Teams just sees it as an attachment, but it is really a table.

Power Automate grabs it like this from the Teams message attachment content data:

{
  "text""<table>\r\n<col style=\"width:14.61%\"><col style=\"width:24.72%\"><col style=\"width:20.22%\"><col style=\"width:40.45%\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>stock_code</td>\r\n<td>total_sku_have_stock</td>\r\n<td>total_sku_enable</td>\r\n<td>enable_lower_than_stock_percentage</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>TOPS_AG_054 TOPS_AG_008 TOPS_AG_419 TOPS_AG_047 TOPS_AG_711 TOPS_AG_581 TOPS_AG_020 TOPS_AG_056 TOPS_AG_031 TOPS_AG_157 TOPS_AG_432</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<pre><code>            16582\n            17891\n            13929\n            14823\n            17228\n            17825\n            12871\n            15372\n            11754\n             7532\n            14476\n</code></pre>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<pre><code>        13263\n        14510\n        11462\n        12250\n        14308\n        14850\n        10745\n        12892\n         9933\n         6626\n        13032\n</code></pre>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<pre><code>                          20.02\n                          18.90\n                          17.71\n                          17.36\n                          16.95\n                          16.69\n                          16.52\n                          16.13\n                          15.49\n                          12.03\n                           9.98\n</code></pre>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>"
}
How can I format that to look like a table, so it matches the Teams message?
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Like this (below is how the first line should look)?

stock_code      total_sku_have_stock        total_sku_enable      enable_lower_than_stock_percentage
TOPS_AG_054         16582                               13263                           20.02

 

I then want to set a condition where if any value in the enable_lower_than_stock_percentage column >= 25.00 then do something.

Any help would really be appreciated.

Thanks so much!
 

@ianwuk That's some crazy (horrible) JSON you've got there 🙂

 

See full flow below. I'll go into each of the actions.

grantjenkins_0-1673412210464.png

 

Compose contains your JSON data.

grantjenkins_1-1673412265897.png

 

XML is a Compose that converts your Table data to XML. The expression also removes the style rows as they cause issues in the XML due to not having closing tags. The expression is below:

xml(concat('<table>', slice(outputs('Compose')?['text'], indexOf(outputs('Compose')?['text'], '<tbody>'))))

grantjenkins_2-1673412399441.png

 

Select Codes retrieves an array of the Stock Codes. It uses the following expressions:

//From
split(last(xpath(outputs('XML'), '//tbody/tr/td/text()')), ' ')

//Map
trim(item())

grantjenkins_3-1673412513461.png

 

Select Numbers retrieves all the numbers (will end up with an array of arrays in this instance). It uses the following expressions:

//From
xpath(outputs('XML'), '//tbody/tr/td/pre/code/text()')

//Map
split(trim(item()), decodeUriComponent('%0A'))

grantjenkins_4-1673412614444.png

 

Initialize variable total creates an integer variable called total that stores the total number of rows from the JSON. The expression used is:

length(body('Select_Codes'))

grantjenkins_5-1673412802944.png

 

Initialize variable index creates an integer variable called index initially set to 0. This will be uses when we loop over each of the rows in our Do Until loop.

grantjenkins_6-1673412883749.png

 

Initialize variable rows creates an array variable called rows. It's initially set to an empty array and will eventually contain all our objects (rows of data).

grantjenkins_7-1673412974254.png

 

Do until will continue to loop until index is equal to total. Each time through the loop index will be increased by 1. We use the value of index to retrieve the values from our arrays at that index to build up our objects. We then add the object to the rows array. Note that I've also changed the limits so Count is 1000 which will allow for the loop to run 1000 times (needs to be at least the same or more than the number of rows we have).

 

grantjenkins_8-1673413013980.png

 

Append to array variable rows will build up each object using the current index. The object will then be appended to the rows array. Below are the expressions used for each property:

//stock_code
body('Select_Codes')[variables('index')]

//total_sku_have_stock
int(trim(body('Select_Numbers')[0][variables('index')]))

//total_sku_enable
int(trim(body('Select_Numbers')[1][variables('index')]))

//enable_lower_than_stock_percentage
float(trim(body('Select_Numbers')[2][variables('index')]))

 

The full object expression is below (can just copy/paste this directly into the action).

{
    "stock_code": @{body('Select_Codes')[variables('index')]},
    "total_sku_have_stock": @{int(trim(body('Select_Numbers')[0][variables('index')]))},
    "total_sku_enable": @{int(trim(body('Select_Numbers')[1][variables('index')]))},
    "enable_lower_than_stock_percentage": @{float(trim(body('Select_Numbers')[2][variables('index')]))}
}

grantjenkins_9-1673413339143.png

 

Increment variable index increases the index variable by 1 each time through the loop so we can get the next set of data.

grantjenkins_10-1673413389720.png

 

After the loop has completed, the variable rows should contain all of our rows/data. We then have Create HTML table using the output from the rows variable. This should give us our HTML table with the correct data format.

grantjenkins_11-1673413465989.png

 

Below is what the HTML table would look like.

grantjenkins_14-1673414064926.png

 

XML Stock is a Compose that converts our rows to XML which will be used in the Condition.

xml(json(concat('{"root": { value:', variables('rows'), '}}')))

grantjenkins_12-1673413570095.png

 

Condition uses the following expression to check if any enable_lower_than_stock_percentage column >= 25. If true, then it will go into the Yes branch to run whatever you want to do.

length(xpath(outputs('XML_Stock'), '//root/value[enable_lower_than_stock_percentage >= 25]'))

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@grantjenkins This is amazing!  I'm sorry for the late reply.  I'll go through it and give it a try.

 

How can I learn more about Power Automate to be able to do stuff like this myself?  What would you recommend?

 

Thanks again, I really appreciate it!

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@grantjenkins 

I am trying to make it so that the JSON step uses the attachment details from the Teams message and is not hardcoded.

I have changed the start of my flow to be this:

ianwuk_1-1673579332223.png


I assume I then need to add a parse JSON with the schema from the above output?  This is an Apply to Each for each message attachments item.

 

ianwuk_0-1673583884210.png

And after that is the start of your flow steps with XML, but it refers to Parse_JSON above?  -

xml(concat('<table>', slice(outputs('Parse_JSON')?['text'], indexOf(outputs('Parse_JSON')?['text'], '<tbody>'))))

Is that correct?  I'm a bit confused.

Thanks so much!

ianwuk
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@grantjenkins I'm sorry to bother you, but I cannot seem to get this flow to work.

It fails on the Select_Codes step, with the following message:

Unable to process template language expressions in action 'Select_Codes' inputs at line '0' and column '0': 'The template language function 'split' expects its first parameter to be of type string.

Here is how my flow looks up to that point:

1 - I get the Teams message details.
2 - I use a Compose to get the attachment data - body('Get_message_details')?['attachments'][0]?['content']

3 - This gives me output like this, which looks correct:

{
"text": "<table>\r\n<col style=\"width:14.61%\"><col style=\"width:24.72%\"><col style=\"width:20.22%\"><col style=\"width:40.45%\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>stock_code</td>\r\n<td>total_sku_have_stock</td>\r\n<td>total_sku_enable</td>\r\n<td>enable_lower_than_stock_percentage</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>TOPS_AG_054 TOPS_AG_008 TOPS_AG_419 TOPS_AG_047 TOPS_AG_711 TOPS_AG_581 TOPS_AG_020 TOPS_AG_056 TOPS_AG_031 TOPS_AG_157 TOPS_AG_432</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<pre><code> 16768\n 18422\n 14121\n 14982\n 17595\n 18243\n 13139\n 15894\n 11880\n 7546\n 14900\n</code></pre>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<pre><code> 13324\n 14641\n 11593\n 12317\n 14532\n 15103\n 10913\n 13312\n 9993\n 6666\n 13440\n</code></pre>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<pre><code> 20.54\n 20.52\n 17.90\n 17.79\n 17.41\n 17.21\n 16.94\n 16.25\n 15.88\n 11.66\n 9.80\n</code></pre>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>"
}

4 - Your XML step runs - xml(json(concat('{"root": ', outputs('Compose'), '}')))

But the input that the XML step gets from Compose is this:

 

<root><text>&lt;table&gt;
&lt;col style="width:14.61%"&gt;&lt;col style="width:24.72%"&gt;&lt;col style="width:20.22%"&gt;&lt;col style="width:40.45%"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;stock_code&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;total_sku_have_stock&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;total_sku_enable&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;enable_lower_than_stock_percentage&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
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&lt;/table&gt;</text></root>

And the output it gives is also the same.

 

5 - Then your Select Codes step runs and fails - split(last(xpath(outputs('XML'), '//tbody/tr/td/text()')), ' ')trim(item()).

Any help would be much appreciated - thank you so much!

grantjenkins
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@ianwuk In Step 4 you should be using the following expression to convert to XML.

 

xml(concat('<table>', slice(outputs('Compose')?['text'], indexOf(outputs('Compose')?['text'], '<tbody>'))))

 

We don't convert to JSON first as it's already in XML format. We just need to convert to XML so that Power Automate knows to treat is as XML.


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@grantjenkins Thank you very much for replying.

I get a new error now, not sure what is happening now.

Here is my flow, up until the point it fails:

ianwuk_0-1673857558410.png


Compose - 

body('Get_message_details')?['attachments'][0]?['content'] 

ianwuk_1-1673857690285.png

XML (Compose) -

xml(concat('<table>', slice(outputs('Compose')?['text'], indexOf(outputs('Compose')?['text'], '<tbody>'))))
 
This is where it fails, with the error:
 
Unable to process template language expressions in action 'XML' inputs at line '0' and column '0': 'The template language expression 'xml(concat('<table>', slice(outputs('Compose')?['text'], indexOf(outputs('Compose')?['text'], '<tbody>'))))' cannot be evaluated because property 'text' cannot be selected. Property selection is not supported on values of type 'String'.
 
What am I doing wrong here?  Do you know?
 
Thanks so much!

For your Compose can you use the following expression:

 

body('Get_message_details')?['attachments'][0]?['content']?['text']

 

Then for your XML:

 

xml(concat('<table>', slice(outputs('Compose'), indexOf(outputs('Compose'), '<tbody>'))))

 


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Thank you for always replying @grantjenkins 

I updated both the Compose and XML steps, it now seems to fail at the updated Compose step and never gets to the updated XML step, with this error:

Unable to process template language expressions in action 'Compose' inputs at line '0' and column '0': 'The template language expression 'body('Get_message_details')?['attachments'][0]?['content']?['text']' cannot be evaluated because property 'text' cannot be selected. Property selection is not supported on values of type 'String'.

Here is the updated flow.

ianwuk_0-1673923946660.png

ianwuk_1-1673923999998.png

Sorry for being such a pain, and thanks very much for all your help.





 

 

Samruddhi
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Hii,
Can I know how to extract/fetch specific values from one json object and replace those values in another objects value.
Example: I'm fetching an id value from an object (ids can be multiple) and want to replace those id's in another objects id.
I'm doing this using Power Automate workflow . Please help me out with solution.

Samruddhi_1-1682583115742.png

 

 

@grantjenkins

Hope you are good.

I was wondering if you could possibly spare a few moments to help me again with this flow.

I am not sure if I have broken it or not and I also want to modify it slightly.

Here is what I have:

1 - A new message comes into the Teams channel I selected
2 - Compose -  

triggerBody()?['attachments'][0]['content']
3 - XML -  
xml(json(concat('{"root": ', triggerBody()?['attachments'][0]['content'], '}')))
4 - Condition (IF True) - 
length(xpath(outputs('XML'), '//sections/facts[contains(name, "Monitor status") and contains(value, "DOWN")]')) 
5 - Reply with a message to a message ID to the Team and Channel I select - trigger(Outputs()?['body/id']

My questions are:

1 - Is this flow now correct to automatically reply to a message that comes in where the Monitor Status is DOWN?  I think so, but I just wanted to confirm.

2 - I want to put a 10 minute delay after step 4, so that, the message reply is only triggered if the original message that contained alert whose Monitor Status: DOWN has not had another Teams message come in where that same alert status has changed to Monitor Status: UP.

How would I do this?

Can I just add a ten minute delay followed by 
length(xpath(outputs('XML'), '//sections/facts[contains(name, "Monitor status") and contains(value, "UP")]'))?

What I don't understand is how to track somehow that same alert in a different message, if that makes sense?

Any help is very much appreciated.  Thank you.


 

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