x-ms-dynamic-values - static and dynamic parameters use in flow.

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Can anyone please tell what is siginificance of staticParameter and dynamicParameter in below code.And how to use them(any example)?

ref: https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/customapi-how-to-swagger/

"x-ms-dynamic-values": {
  "operationId": "PopulateDropdown",
  "value-path": "name",
  "value-title": "properties/displayName",
  "value-collection": "value",
  "parameters": {
     "staticParameter": "{value}",
     "dynamicParameter": {
        "parameter": "{value-to-pass-to-dynamicParameter}"
     }
  }
}

[v-yamao-msft]

Hi sunil_gaikwad,

Hope this documentation about API parameters could be a reference for you:
https://swagger.io/docs/specification/2-0/describing-parameters/

I will help collect more info on it.

Best regards,
Mabel Mao

[Samuel]

There is nothing special about those parameter names. They are just describing that if you want to use a static parameter you follow the "staticParameter" example. If you want to use a dynamic parameter (aka not hard-coded in swagger, but pulled from the other user input) follow the "dynamicParameter" example.

That original article (https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/customapi-how-to-swagger/) also has links to examples of swaggers that use these extensions.

For dynamic values extension the example swagger is here: https://procsi.blob.core.windows.net/blog-images/sampleDynamicSwagger.json

For dynamic schema extension the example swagger is here: https://procsi.blob.core.windows.net/blog-images/sampleDynamicSwagger.json

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Thanks Samuel,

Look at the following code, I want to populate dynamic drop down list based on operation GetSuppliers(which calls api: Inventory/getsuppliers/{materialname})

suppName:
 type: string
 description: suppName
 x-ms-summary: suppName
 title: suppName
 x-ms-visibility: ''
 x-ms-dynamic-values:
 operationId: GetSuppliers
 value-path: key-item-output
 value-title: key-item-output
 parameters:
 materialName:
 parameter: materialName

Can i say here that materialName as dynamic parameter ?

Regards,

Sunil

[paulschaeflein]

I've written a blog post to help clarify the use of x-ms-dynamic-parameters:

https://www.schaeflein.net/using-dynamic-values-in-microsoft-flow/