Parsing fields from steps.trigger.event.body.payload

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Hey Team, I’m building a newsfeed app which retrieves a feed, pushes it to a Slack channel inside blocks containing a button with an action_id. Another workflow listens on the action_id and I want to use the content of the payload provided in the next steps of the second workflow.

How to I parse the separate fields e.g. bot_message","text?

Thanks so much :pray:

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Hi @jbudding777,

To parse the payload and access the separate fields like “bot_message” and “text”, you can first parse the payload using JSON.parse(). Then, you can access the desired fields using the parsed object. Here’s an example:

const payload = JSON.parse(steps.trigger.event.body.payload);
const messageType = payload.message.type;
const messageText = payload.message.text;

console.log("Message Type:", messageType);
console.log("Message Text:", messageText);

This code will parse the payload and extract the “type” and “text” fields from the “message” object. You can use these variables in the next steps of your workflow.
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I tried that but I get

“steps is not defined”

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It’s working - Thanks for the guidance!