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I have a Jotform that i am using for daily timesheets.  Apart from general information such as total hours worked, start finish times, employee name and day of work it has three configurable lists.  The configurable lists are for

Labour hours (Project Number, Task, Hours Worked)

Machinery hours (Project Number, Machine, Machine Registration, Hours in Use)

Materials Delivered (Project Number, Material, Quantity, Unit of Measure, Delivered To)

These are configurable lists as we need to capture all this information for individual projects and our team can be involved in multiple projects per day.

We have a number of MySQL Database Tables to update with the form and the issue i am having is parsing the data to the looping function as an array and then configuring the looping function to populate the Tables with multiple lines of data.

Nothing I have tried so far has worked and the Jotform output looks like an array in the code step but does not show up as one in looping.

The example below is one of the many attempts to get the array to show in the looping config.  I have only been able to select individual fields which does not give me complete rows in the table.

See Screenshots:

Created Flat Array

The array does not show in looping.  only its components

I have also used formatters to alter the Jotform output. 

Please help. 

 

Try using return in the map as when we use map with {} braces then sometimes it cause issues when we do not use return (like .map((i) => {})).

Use it like this and see if the issue gets resolved

const labourData = labourEntries.map((entry, index) => {
  return {
    id: index + 1, // Add an id field to mimic line items
    project_number: parseInt(entry("Project Number"] || "0"),
    labour_hours: parseFloat((entryt"Labour Hours"] || "0").replace(",", ".")),
    task: entrya"Task"] || "Unknown"
  };
});

You can also try using “Loop from Text” by returning data of id , project_number etc as a comma separated string.

 

const ids = labourData.map(item => item.id).join(",");
const project_numbers = labourData.map(item => item.project_number ?? "").join(",");
const labour_hours = labourData.map(item => item.labour_hours ?? "").join(",");
const tasks = labourData.map(item => item.task ?? "").join(",");

// Return them as individual output fields
return {
  ids,             
  project_numbers,   
  labour_hours,    
  tasks              
};
 

 

Hi Mohammad,

 

Unfortunately neither option worked with regards to updating the table using looping. No matter what i do the array isnt available within the loop.

 

 

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