XSOAR-Engineer Playbook Development Practice Question
An XSOAR Engineer is configuring a playbook task and needs to reference the output of a previous task named 'Get Incident Details'. Which syntax is correct to access the 'ID' key from that task's output context?
Answer choices
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Correct answer & explanation
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${GetIncidentDetails.ID}
Task outputs are stored in the Incident Context using the naming convention ${TaskName.Key}. Therefore, ${GetIncidentDetails.ID} correctly retrieves the ID from the specified task.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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${incident.GetIncidentDetails.ID}
Why it's wrong here
The 'incident.' prefix refers to incident fields, not task outputs.
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${task.GetIncidentDetails.ID}
Why it's wrong here
The 'task.' prefix is not part of the standard context referencing syntax for task outputs.
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$GetIncidentDetails[ID]
Why it's wrong here
Square bracket indexing for keys is not the standard notation in XSOAR playbook context paths.
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${GetIncidentDetails.ID}
Why this is correct
This is the correct syntax to access task output context in an XSOAR playbook.
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