Hello fellow Botmakers, I have a single capture card that has 3 options with detailed sentences. Instead of checking these long sentences wed like to check if the choice is either 1, 2 or 3. From my research it seems we need to access the "event.paypload.value". Is the code below the correct way of fetching our desired data ?

// Inside the "userChoice" node logic
const userChoice = event.payload.value;
let result = "";

switch (userChoice) {
  case "1":
    result = "Liefde";
    break;
  case "2":
    result = "Lust";
    break;
  default:
    result = "Leven";
    break;
}

// Store the 'result' in a flow variable
workflow.result = result;

The message sent by the user is contain inside the

event.preview

variable but I would recommend using the variable you set in your choice option instead

workflow.mychoice

. This is will be more precise, the

event.preview

variable could contain a random message that the user sent to your bot. 🙂

Hi Mike, thanks for thinking along. I am familiar with the method you described but were encountering an issue where if the list of choices is very big ( and contains allot of text ) it becomes increasingely more work for the coder to check for answers. Wouldn't it be much more helpful if choice 1 outputs the number 1 (or 0) and choice 2 outputs 2 etc. ? Let me give you an example:

Oh! I get it. I will get back to you with a better solution. I see what I can do to allow you to define a text for your question and a value associated with it. You could also use the transition on every choice directly. I hope this helps.

oh that would be amazing ! @colossal-egg-20510