Blue prism - adding "inner collection"

[Johan]

I have a collection of collections "Fruit owner" containing "Fruits".
Adding "Fruit owner" rows is straight forward (first action and multi calc)

But how do I add rows to the inner collection "Fruits"? (second action and multi calc)

I am guessing this is just a syntax problem?

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What am i supposed to write in Value below to add a row to the "inner collection"?

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And this would be the last step to add the name of the fruit to the "inner collection" in the calc-step.

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I guess this is just a question on syntax. The dot-notation does not work, but I guess i shows what I am trying to achieve.

Thanks you!

 

[VJR]

I have a collection of collections "Fruit owner" containing "Fruits".
Adding "Fruit owner" rows is straight forward (first action and multi calc)

But how do I add rows to the inner collection "Fruits"? (second action and multi calc)

I am guessing this is just a syntax problem?

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What am i supposed to write in Value below to add a row to the "inner collection"?

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And this would be the last step to add the name of the fruit to the "inner collection" in the calc-step.

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I guess this is just a question on syntax. The dot-notation does not work, but I guess i shows what I am trying to achieve.

Thanks you!

I am hoping that I understood the question.
Does it accept if you simply give "Fruits" in the Value for Add Row?

 

[Johnyhcao]

can you try to use the calc stage to store the inner collection to another collection first, then add row on it, and then add it back as a inner collection?

 

[Johan]

@VJR
I have tried Fruits and FruitOwner.Fruits. None of them works.
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[Johan]

@Johnyhcao
This actually works for me, as a work-around to the actual problem. Thanks.

I would still like to use the definition of the original FruitOwner.Fruits instead of creating a new collection by hand.
The reason being that my actual collection is generated from a web service. The inner collections run four levels deep with several inner collections per level and quite a few fields per level making the task of re-creating the collections by hand... tedious..