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Status Under review
Workspace DevOps Automation
Categories Deploy
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 20, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

have an option to call nested properties within a process

we have scenarios where we would like to call a application property inside of a agent property reference, 

Example:

we need to call below from a shell step in component process,
value = "${p:agent/{p:application/mnemonic}.agent.propertyname}"

Currently its not possible but would like to have that nested property developed to enhance our working structure.

  • Admin
    Randy Langehennig
    Sep 3, 2026

    This may be accomplished with existing functionality. I believe your lab advocate provided an example of how to achieve what you needed for this idea.

    Dev said to try this which has been tested and did work:

    Create two properties (i suggest system) that parameterizes the first part of a parameter and the last bracket:

    propStart = ${p:

    rightBracket=}

    Then change your reference in the component process step from this:

    ${p:agent/{p:application/mnemonic}.agent.propertyname}

    to:

    ${p:propStart}agent/${p:application/mnemonic}agent.propertyname${p:rightBracket}

    The first pass will change that string to:

    ${p:agent/A.agent.propertyname}

    Then, on the second pass we will resolve the fully resolved property name.

    Try it out and we can discuss on Thursday.

    Reply
  • Admin
    Randy Langehennig
    Aug 21, 2026

    Thank you for submitting this idea. I have created a discussion topic for this RFE with our development team and it will be reviewed next week in their back2design meetings. I am moving this to the 'Under review' state. Thank you again!

    Reply

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