Lesson 4: Creating an Option Generator Workflow

Improve the form you created in the "Building a Basic Form and Workflow" lesson by creating an Option Generator to power the "Group" field.

What to Eggs-pect

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

1. Create an option generator workflow designed for a Rewst form field

2. Use a data alias to store the "options" for a form field and accurately map those options in workflow output configuration

3. Create an API Request Action

4. Update a Rewst form to use an Option Generator

Prerequisite(s)

In this lesson, we review context data from the form and workflow that you create in "Building a Basic Form and Workflow."

Lesson Modules

To get started, select the first module. Each module includes a video and written guidance with resources, followed by navigation to go back/forward. To wrap up the lesson, visit Next Steps.

1. Introduction to Option Generators (6 Minutes)

2. How to Create, Configure, and Trigger an Option Generator Workflow (5 Minutes)

3. Using Jinja in Data Aliases and Creating an API Request Action (13 Minutes)

4. Connecting an Option Generator Workflow to a Rewst Form (6 Minutes)

Lesson Resources

Check out these supplementary resources.

• Workflow Generated Options

• Microsoft Graph Integration Setup

• Working with Jinja Lists

• Diff Lists

• Microsoft Graph REST API v1.0 endpoint reference

• Working with Options Generator Workflows in Rewst

• How to Reference Data with Variables

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Keep On Cluckin'

We've created a workflow and set it up as an Option Generator to populate the group field with relevant groups, depending on whether the user is being added or removed from a group. In the next lesson, we'll complete the workflow to handle all group types.

Go back a lesson: Lesson 3: Jinja Essentials for Workflow Automation

Go to the next lesson: Lesson 5: Managing Workflow Paths

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