How to Increment a value in Workflows

[PrashRV (Prashanth RV)]

Hi,

I have a requirement to increment the value based on previous value of some attribute of user in workflows. Tried but couldn’t see any possibility in workflows variable.

Appreciate for any suggestions or approaches.

Thanks

[JackSparrow (Theja C)]

Hi @PrashRV ,

Currently it’s not possible to increment the values in workflows.
Check this post where Sidharth suggested to use API approach with dependencies

Increment Value for a Variable in Workflow

Hi Team, I am working on a requirement where there is a variable with a numeric value as 23434 and i want to increment this by 1 and have the variable as 23435. Just need to increment the value in the workflow using variable. Has anybody done this before? Can this be achieved in a Workflow ?

[trettkowski (Tyler Rettkowski)]

Hi @PrashRV

Currently, there is no native “Increment” operator within SailPoint Workflows. However, as Theja mentioned, you can handle this via an external service.

If your organization uses Azure Functions or AWS Lambda, you can trigger an HTTP Request action from your workflow to an API gateway. The function can perform the increment (or any other advanced logic) and return the updated value back to the workflow.

[David_Norris (Terry Yau)]

This should be able to do what you need…within ISC, but not truly within workflow.

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