ItemInformationCollection example

[Palayn]

Hi, i was reading this:

Add Queue Item

And regarding “ItemInformationCollection” it says that you can pass “Dictionary<string, object>” variables.

What do I need to put into that Dictionary? Can someone provide an example?

Thanks.

[rahulsharma]

The dictionary item doesn’t work that well. I would highly recommend to parse your dictionary as a json text and send it to orchestraror. While retrieving you can again de serialize it to dictionary or any other two-dimensional variable/container.

Below thread has explanation with options

Add Dictionary to QueueItem

Hello, I’m currently using the REFramework to develop one of our automations. I’m trying to figure out the most efficient way of uploading an item to the queue. I have a dictionary containing employee information that i’m extracting from a data source. To give an indication, the dictionary looks something like this: Dictionary<string, string> { "Name: ", “Dhoe” }, { "First name: ", “John” }, { "Title: ", “Mr” }, { "UserId: ", “123456” } Now to pass this on the the performer process I …

[postwick (Paul Ostwick)]

Why do you say it doesn’t work that well? It works great for me. No reason to overcomplicate by adding conversion steps.

[postwick (Paul Ostwick)]

You can put anything you want in that dictionary.

Whatever dictionary (and its values) you put into the queue item, will be what you get back when you Get Transaction and then use yourtransactionvar.SpecificContent

The one catch is you can’t do complex datatypes like datatables, etc. but you can do arrays, lists, timespans, int32, double, etc.

[postwick (Paul Ostwick)]

For example, if you do…

myDict = new dictionary(of string, object)
myDict(“Name”) = “Paul”
myDict(“Age”) = 32
myDict(“City”) = “Miami”

Then use Add Queue Item and pass myDict to ItemInformation Collection.

Then use Get Transaction and store the transaction in a variable named myTrans…

myTrans.SpecificContent(“Name”).ToString will return Paul
myTrans.SpecificContent(“Age”).ToString will return 32. If you need it as an integer you would reference CInt(myTrans.SpecificContent(“Age”).ToString)
myTrans.SpecificContent(“City”).toString will return Miami.

Remember that you have to control the output datatype, because it is dictionary of string, object - so the value you get back is an object and you have to convert it to the datatype you want.

[Palayn]

Oh I thought I had to pass like a dictionary of configuration or something like that haha. Thank you very much!

[postwick (Paul Ostwick)]

The dictionary is just the name/value pairs you need for the transaction. The data.

Configuration for the queue item is in the properties of the Add Queue Item (or Bulk Add Queue Items) activity: