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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 27, 2024

Number to String type conversion while mapping in flows

Number to String type conversion while mapping in skill-flow. This Allows an integer value outputted from a skill to be mapped to a string based input from another skill in skill- flow.

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Laurent Tillette de Clermont-Tonnerre
    Jul 30, 2025

    Closing as path forward is agents & flow where this is now available through python nodes, please register an idea against those if you still see something missing, thanks!

  • Guest
    Oct 23, 2024

    FYI: I also found this older idea that was requesting the same thing: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/LSABER-I-606 

  • Guest
    Oct 23, 2024

    I second this improvement. Here is an example: 

    If I want to send an email (with the Gmail Skill) based on an email template where I will fill in/substitute some variables :
    I can only inject in the email body input variables of the same type as the input field of the Email Skill (i.e. "String"). 
    All other variable types like "Numbers" aren't available to use...