Add to Variable

⛓

Appends this action's input to the specified variable, creating the variable if it does not exist. This allows you to make a variable hold multiple items.

Score

Type

InterActivity

Expertise

 4/5

Scripting

Background Process

Regular

Type

Scripting

InterActivity

Background Process

Expertise

Regular

Action Information

Parameters

Add [Value] to [Variable]

Input

Anything

Result

(Anything) The update contents of the variable

Comments

In place of this action, you can also use List and add variables as line items there

Shortcuts Using This

Works Well With

Location, Location

🗾

Get Details of Locations

Allows you to extract information from a location passed as input, including the latitude, longitude, altitude, street, city, state, ZIP code, country, phone number, URL, and name of a location.

Scripting, Control Flow

🔂

Repeat with Each

Takes a list of items as input, and runs the contained actions once for each item in the list.

Scripting, Dictionaries

📙

Get Dictionary from Input

Makes a dictionary from the text passed as input. JSON (like {“foo”: “bar”}), key-value pairs (like foo=bar&baz=biz), and XML-based plist are supported.