When reading a REST API is common for custom fields and metadata related to a record be stored in an array. This creates a problem for SmartConnect because it parses each entry in the array as a separate line in your source. With the new source column type “ValueArray” we can now manually define how these fields should be parsed. Below is a sample query for a WooCommerce customer with 2 metadata fields.
Parsing Value Arrays
Parsing the values is a two-step process. First, we want to specify the location of the metadata object and set the data type to “ValueArray”.
Once this is done, we can add our Calculated Fields to parse the values we want from the array. Below is a sample calculation to extract the ‘wc_last_active’ value from the array.
The end result looks like this:
