How do I extract string values of label type custom fields in ClickUp using Zapier?

@Troy Tessalone thanks for reaching out. Hmm, getting this captured and communicated might be tricky.

I did find on my Trigger under Test I can see the json payload coming in. In the payload, I can see the mapping I laid out above. I still find it vexing there’s not an easier way to do this. Even with this found, it’s going to take some tedious traversal logic.

As for how the payload comes in, suffice it to say it’s a large, nested object that’s tricky to scroll through on the minimal windows we get in Zapier. If you’ve worked with ClickUp, you may have seen a similar payload.

Below I'll sketch out roughly what the nesting looks like and where the id → string value mapping can be found. Hope this helps more than it hurts.

Essentially though, I can get the current unique id, then it would be a matter of extracting the ‘options’ collection to extract the corresponding ‘label’. Open to any suggestions if there’s some simpler solution. Again, this seems like an incredible amount of work to simply extract the human readable value for a custom field:

task

→custom fields

→→1 [where each index contains nested data about a custom field]

→→2

→→→name [name of custom field]

→→→type_config

→→→→options [mapping of id → string value]

→→→→→1

→→→→→→id = a1234

→→→→→→label = Alpha

→→→→→2 - 4 [etc, for all available options]

→→→value

→→→→1 = a1234 [unique id of label set on this task]