Extend List Properties

Audience: Citizen Developer

Skill Prerequisites: Using Form Builder

This action extends an entity in the current context with new properties.

Typical Use Cases

• After creating a contextual entity with any of the load entity actions, use this action to add a property such as an ID before passing to the Execute Actions for each List Entry action.

Don't use it to

• Create an entity. Use Add List Entry or any of the Create List from (Source) actions instead (e.g. Create List from CSV file (obsolete)).

Related Actions

Action Name	Description
Add List Entry	Creates an list in the current context to which you can load values from the current context. Use this to create the list that will be processed with this action.
Execute Actions for each List Entry	Execute a list of actions on each item in the specified context list. Use this to process the items loaded in the list created.
Create List from CSV file (obsolete)	Creates an list in the current context from the content of a provided CSV file. Use this to create the list that will be processed with this action.
Create List from a CSV source	Creates an list in the current context from a CSV list. Use this to create the list that will be processed with this action.
Create List from Excel (xlsx)	Creates an list in the current context from the content of a provided Excel(XLSX) file. Use this to create the list that will be processed with this action.
Create List from JSON	Creates an list in the current context from the provided JSON model. Use this to create the list that will be processed with this action.
Create List from SQL	Creates an list in the current context from the result of the provided SQL Query. Use this to create the list that will be processed with this action.

Input Parameter Reference

The parameters unique to this action are listed below. Review the common parameters for all actions here.

Parameter	Description	Supports Tokens	Default	Required
List Name	Provide the name of the entity alread in context that will be updated.	Yes	empty string	Yes
Properties	Specify the Property Names and Values to include in the entity.	Yes	None Specified	No
List Object Properties	You can add or replace properties on the entity which reference previously created entity objects. NOTE: No recursive referencing checks will be done when setting the property so infinite loops can be encountered.	Yes	None Specified	No
List Properties	You can add or replace properties on the entity which reference previously created entity lists. NOTE: No recursive referencing checks will be done when setting the property so infinite loops can be encountered.	Yes	None Specified	No