HELP

[EstebanMontesi1]

I have an empty collection and I'm trying to add a field to it using the collection manipulation VBO add a field(text) however when I ran this stage nothing happens. I've used this action before working with queues and completed items and it worked before. What exactly is going on here?

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Esteban Montesinos
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[HarshitRawat]

Hi Esteban ,
Can you please share more details about it?
Are the collection field defined already ?


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Harshit Rawat
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[NicholasZejdlik]

Did you add a row after appending the field? If you append a field to a blank collection, it will appear to still be blank afterwards if you open the collection. The fields should appear once you add a row.

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Nicholas Zejdlik
RPA Developer
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[EstebanMontesi1]

I tried using the add field action (text) then I tried adding a row action using the same collection and I got the following error Internal: Cannot cast a collection value into a string and the field so I don't entirely understand why this is. The only way I find that it works is either pulling from a CSV file or xlxs or queue into a collection and then performing the add field text. While I get a decimal string type error when I add a number field.

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Esteban Montesinos
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[EstebanMontesi1]

While using an undefined collection I tried using this action and it did not work. Then I tried defining one field manually and tried to use the action and by the same token, it did not work. When I tried doing this using a queue and getting the completed items I was able to add a field(text) however when adding a field(number) I got a data error. Look for screenshots in the post below.

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Esteban Montesinos
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[NicholasZejdlik]

The error is because the Collections business object is wonky and expects the name of the collection as opposed to the collection itself. That's why Add Row shows a Text data type for the Collection Name parameter, and why it's saying it cannot cast a collection into a string. Use "temporary collection" instead of [temporary collection] on Add Row and it should work.

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Nicholas Zejdlik
RPA Developer
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[EstebanMontesi1]

It does not solve the issue.Actually it throws a data type mismatch error right away.

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Esteban Montesinos
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