Max Katz

Welcome to another Okta Workflows Tips post. Read all previous tips.

In this post:

• How to get the day of the week from the Date & Time card
• How to convert an object to a list
• Online meetup replay: Build Your First No-Code Workflow Automation in 25 Minutes

How to get the day of the week from the Date & Time card

You might want to run a flow on a particular day of the week such as Monday or Friday. This tip will show you how to figure out what is the current day of the week.

First use Data & Time – Now card to get the current date and time. Then using Data to Text card, set the format to dddd to get the day of the week result (Friday):

Result running this flow:

If you set the format to ddd, the result will be Fri.

You can also set the format to d. In this case the result will be a number corresponding to a day in the week (5 = Friday):

Thanks to Bryan Barrows (Workflows Builder Advocate at Okta) and Arek Dreyer (Senior Product Engineer at kandji.io) for helping with this tip.

How to convert an object to a list

Object – Map to List card takes an object and converts it to a list using a helper flow.

For example, if you have this object:

{
   "drink": "wine",
   "main course": "chicken",
   "appetizer ": "salad",
   "desert": "ice cream"
}

You can convert it to a list where each property from the object becomes a key/value pair:

[
   {
      "key": "drink",
      "value": "wine"
   },
   {
      "key": "main course",
      "value": "chicken"
   },
   {
      "key": "appetizer",
      "value": "salad"
   },
   {
      "key": "desert",
      "value": "ice cream"
   }
]

This is the main flow:

And the is the helper flow:

Result running the flow:

[
   {
      "key": "drink",
      "value": "wine"
   },
   {
      "key": "main course",
      "value": "chicken"
   },
   {
      "key": "appetizer ",
      "value": "salad"
   },
   {
      "key": "desert",
      "value": "ice cream"
   }
]

Online meetup replay: Build Your First No-Code Workflow Automation in 25 Minutes

In this video you will learn how to build your first no-code workflow automation with Okta Workflows in 25 minutes. You will learn how to build two flows:

• ⚡️ User activated event ➡️ notify on Slack, send email, and save user information to a table
• ⚡️ User deactivated event ➡️ call an 3rd party API endpoint

Looking for more videos? Learn from short videos on our Okta Workflows Community YouTube playlist.

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