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Okta Certified Workflows - Specialty · Part I

Building Flows

43% of Part I — the exam's largest section, split across 4 modules.

Building Flows · Module 3

Sub-topic: Number & Text Functions

this deck covers 3 of 4 sub-topics in this module

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The Scenario

"Use Number and Text functions to manipulate inputs in your flow"

"When you're adding, subtracting, splitting, or concatenating inputs, the manipulation of both numbers and text is a critical piece of building an automation." Okta groups these under two function categories.

Number Functions

The basics: Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide. Beyond those, more complex functions include Round, Remainder, and Factorial.

Text Functions — The Big Three

Find — searches inside text for a substring. Returns the position where the text was found, or -1 if it wasn't found at all.

Text Segment — extracts a specific portion of text by start and end location: a word, a character, or a run of characters.

Compose — builds a message and lets you drag inputs directly into it; supports both HTML and Markdown. Functionally similar to Concatenate.

Split — A Closer Look

"Split text into a list of text segments separated by a comma or another specified delimiter." Input text (String, required) is the value to convert; separator (String, optional) is the delimiter — a single character, a sequence of characters, or a line break. Output is a result list (List of Text).

The Gotcha

Per the docs: if items are comma-separated with spaces (e.g. This, is, an, example), include a space after the comma in your separator value — otherwise the resulting list items will have stray leading spaces. If spacing is inconsistent, run the result through the Trim function to clean it up.

One Line To Remember

Number functions cover Add/Subtract/Multiply/Divide plus Round/Remainder/Factorial; Text functions center on Find (returns -1 if not found), Text Segment (extract by position), and Compose (HTML/Markdown message building); Split turns delimited text into a List of Text — match your separator's spacing exactly, or Trim the result.

Sources: help.okta.com — Split (ext-string-method-split), Numbers and text (ext-about-numbers-text)