Is this the best approach to display totals of counts in a task (made from Automation)

[Ste404]

Hi there,

I have intune data in Assets and want to generate some automated tasks based on various counts, one of these tasks will be a summary.  The summary will be things like the number of non-compliant devices, number not encrypted, not supervised etc etc.

In an automation I was thinking of doing a lookup object for each item I need to count and then storing the {{lookupObjects.size}} in a variable, then do the next lookup object and store the size in a different variable. When the variables are collected then just create a task and list out some text and the relevant variable to display as the summary information.

Also, is there anything in particular to putting this in a table in the description just to present the information in a neat manner.

Thanks

[Mark Segall · Accepted solution]

Hi @Ste404 

Yes this is a solid approach.  I've done similar with automations in the past where I needed to capture a few things before editing the issue field.

As for capturing it in a table, since you're updating the description, you could use markdown like this:

||Object||Count||
|Object 1|varObject1|
|Object 2|varObject2|

[Ste404]

thanks, I have ground to a halt based on the lookupobjects capped count at 100.  

I started a different thread with that one.  Thanks for the table info, that is quite effective.