assign

Task Purpose

The assign task is used to copy all the enumerable properties from a source object to a target object. It will return a modified target object, which has properties and values pushed from the source object. Of note, the target object is the first parameter and is used also as the return value (targetObject).

Potential Use Case

Suppose you have an ordered list of emails in a collection and you want to assign them into a numbered list. The target object and the source object will be given the numerical assignments in the final list.

Task Properties

Input and output properties are shown below.

How to Configure the Task

In the IAP example below:

• Property "a" has been assigned the value of "1" in the target object.
• Property "b" has been assigned the value of "2" in the sourceN object.
• The source object "b:2" is copied to the target object and the targetObject returns the combined variables of "a":1,"b":2 shown in Figure 3.

Figure 1: Target Object

Figure 2: Source Object

Figure 3: Output

Related Information

For more related information on the assign task, see the assign API reference.