🕵️ Tips and Tricks from the Composer Team 🕵️‍♂️

We're going to be starting a weekly series of tips about Composer designed to teach about some of the nuances and intricacies of the product ... or sometimes just best practices!   

Tip 1: So where did the fields from my get records step go?

If you’ve asked yourself “I tried to use a get records action but I’m not seeing my data” then this is the tip for you!  

The short answer is: Add a For Each loop after your Get Records step!   

The longer background: The Get Records action (for Salesforce, NetSuite, etc) always returns a list. In some cases, you may be looking to retrieve a single record. For example, fetch the account whose ID = accountID. You know that there will be only one record returned, however, the step will still return this as a list of one record.   In order to use fields from that single record, you will need to loop over the list using a For Each loop. The fields from that record will not appear unless you are within the loop. 

So what’s next?: Yes, admittedly this is quite annoying and we have an item on our mid-term roadmap to update this behavior.