Multidimensional array (loading)

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I am attempting to load a multidimensional array with employee info. My code seems to work until it finishes. When I then display the array, all entries contain the last employee I loaded. Below is the code I am using to load my array.

I have this code in a loop so x gets incremented with each iteration. I display it after each iteration and it shows correctly. When the loop finishes and I again display the array, it has the same employee (the last one) in all 3 entries.

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andy

Can you try this...

CMUResidents[x][0] = EmpID;
CMUResidents[x][1] = CMUBadgeID;
CMUResidents[x][2] = LName;
CMUResidents[x][3] = FName;

unknown

When I try that I get a type error. It seems that method is referring to one character of the array and since I am loading a string, it gives a typeerror. Activity Assign8790: Error evaluating expression: CMUResidents[x][0]=EmpID;; Error: org.mozilla.javascript.EcmaError: TypeError: Cannot set property "0.0" of undefined to "XXXC2340" (threadScript#1)

I'm wondering if I have my array defined incorrectly. I have it defined:

I found a sample flow from John Henley on Lawsonguru. He has his defined quite differently but I don't quite understand it. I have 4 columns and variable amount of rows.

This is how he defines his but I can't tell how many columns these represent.

In case you can't read that, it's [["","","","",""],["","","","",""],["","","","",""],["","","","",""],["","","","",""]]

unknown

What is the intent behind the multidimensional array? Does this serve as a notification to show the employee's that have been loaded into Lawson?

Have you thought about employing a MsgBuilder Node each time an employee is added? We have a New Hire flow that every time an employee is added it records the information in a MsgBuilder Node (i.e. Employee ID, First Name, Last Name, etc.

The MsgBuilder continues to concatenate with each new record that is loaded into Lawson. The variable from the MsgBuilder could then be utilized in an Email Notification Node to report out all of the employees that were loaded. The notification is not necessarily the cleanest display, but it does serve the intended purpose.

unknown

My intent is different. I'm using it as a lookup for the non employed residents that we allow to charge in our cafeteria. I have it working by using four one dimensional arrays, but it bothers me why I couldn't get the multidimensional working. Thanks.

andy

try this...

CMUResidents = [ [], [], [] ,[] ];

e.g. empty arrays as elements of an array that you are pushing items into.

unknown

That worked! Thanks so much for your help. And it makes sense now.

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