Change of attribute type from boolean to enumeration
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I have a situation, in a form there used to be only two answers to a question ‘Yes’ or ‘No’, so I made the answer attribute as boolean. Now, the user is asking for a third option as well, which is obviously not possible with type boolean, so I made it as enumeration. Now there are already a lot of forms filled in and if I change the type of attribute, the data from previous forms will be lost. One way is to create a microflow and copy all the answers from that old boolean attribute to the new enumeration attribute. Any other way, in which I can solve this?
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Shreyash Mehta
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Hello Shreyash,
you could migrate the data from boolean to enumeration by an script microflow.
First step would be to set the new attribute on your entity
In the second step create a script microflow to convert the boolean value to the correct enumeration value
Check your data
Remove the boolean, if not required anymore. Make sure the data has been migrated correctly.
By using this action, you should handle the script in a batch. If you’re not sure about this pattern, take a look in the Academy. There is a description in a learning path about it.