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For some tasks, I can see that you can just select the task you want the data from, instead of pushing it via fields in the extension, like this:

How is this done, and is there anyway I can see what is needed to make data available for the Basic Transform task for example, or how to get data from it?

How do you define or access data sources?

This seems to be a much better way to do this rather than passing loads of user data as raw text in an export.

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Hey @JesperAndersen ,

 

This is a very good question.

Since you asked it a while ago, have you already gotten an answer or figured it out?

 

Kyle

@KyleK @JesperAndersen Did you already take some time to read this documentation? 
https://www.qualtrics.com/support/survey-platform/actions-page/etl-workflows/using-actions-tasks-to-build-etl-workflows/

Hi ​@KyleK & ​@chackbusch 

No, I still don’t have a solution to this and sorry for the slow response 😐

I get how the ETL stuff works. What I would like to be able to do is to transfer data between two tasks in the same way.

For example: 

  • I have an extension that pulls users from a lifecycle project, based on specific parameters.
  • To pass the user data I have to add it to a variable that I can then pull in as piped text in the next extension workflow task.
  • Instead, I would like to be able to save the data somehow, and then access it in the next task

I looked at using Imported Data Projects for this, but is there a smarter way? In some cases I might need to loop though the data and delete specific rows of it, and that does not seem to be possible, or at least it might create a mess within Imported Data Projects.

 

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