Getting 'Message' Field Type Property Values

monday Apps & Developers
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I’m building a new Integration App that has a Recipe that notifies a user in another platform whenever an Item’s Status changes. Similar to the Slack integration recipe, I would like to allow the user to input a custom message with the option to auto-populate Item properties.

For example,

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I managed to get this input option using the ‘Message’ field type. However, once a trigger occurs and the custom action for the recipe is executed, the message content payload contains the placeholder property specified by the user instead of the actual values.

For example,

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Any guidance that can point me in the right direction is greatly appreciated!

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hi @gmontalvo

I think this is expected behavior and you need to do the parsing in your own code (which is not too hard to do). I am not 100% sure but it looks the same as e.g. the input field for the scheduler, the payload is just what the user typed / selected and nothing more.

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Thank you for the quick response @basdebruin. Do you have any examples on how to do the parsing? Ideally I would like to parse these values in a dynamic way since additional different values may be created in the future.

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The exact statements are language dependent, in NodeJS you can use .e.g.

theInput.replace(/{quarter}/g, thisDate.quarter);

You would need to get the data with some API calls. I would say the best thing to do is to read the entire item with something like:

 const query = `query($itemId: [Int], $columnId: [String]) {
    items (ids: $itemId) {
      column_values() {
        id
        value
      }
    }
  }`;

The pulse. matches the id returned by the API call

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Got it, thanks again @basdebruin!