Workflows - Compare Strings Contains Operator Not working

[ndanjou (Nicholas Danjou)]

Hi All,

I’m trying to get the below workflow to execute and the inputs seem to be correct, but it looks like contains in the compare string isn’t working? I have to be missing something.

The goal of this step in a workflow is to isolate certain user populations to execute the remaining workflow following a ‘true’ compare string.

So i have 3 steps set up below similar to this thread:

Workflow - Compare String equals with multiple condition

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Step outputs are here:

{
  "defineVariable1": {
    "valuesToCheck": "|Customer Service Center|Commercial Lending|"
  },
  "defineVariable3": {
    "statusFound": "|Customer Service Center|"
  },

From what i can tell the two strings should be correct and since |Customer Service Center| is contained within |Customer Service Center|Commercial Lending| it should be true however its heading to false in the test executions.

[atarodia (Animesh Tarodia)]

Hi @ndanjou,

Under Compare String action in Value 2, you need to change operation to Enter Variable otherwise it will compare to $.defineVariable3.statusFound and not to |Customer Service Center|

[ndanjou (Nicholas Danjou)]

thank you Animesh, that was the problem - didn’t realize those options had an impact if the variable was evaluating and being passed as the input.

Nick

[atarodia (Animesh Tarodia)]

Yes. If you need to pass the variable in Enter Value Operation, then you need to add it like {{$.defineVariable3.statusFound}}.

Please mark it as solution if that worked for you.

[ndanjou (Nicholas Danjou)]

So on my postive test this worked. but with a negative test I still get the ‘true’ eval when i would expect false. Any ideas?

[atarodia (Animesh Tarodia)]

I was able to replicate the issue.

I was able to get a False when I removed the pipe but when I added it back it is showing as true.

@colin_mckibben, Is it a known issue?

[colin_mckibben]

I am also able to reproduce this issue. I have opened an internal ticket (PLTWRKFLW-3318) to track this.