Quick Tip: Understanding Multi-Value Data and the Databus  Quick
Tip: Understanding Multi-Value Data and the Databus    •
Comments 1   • Likes  I saw a question in the forums around
multi-value data and how someone could pass multi-value data in
to a runbook via the Initialize Data activity. I was going to
answer the question there but thought it would be better to post
an article to reach a broader audience. When dealing with
published data on the databus, it’s helpful to know exactly how
multi-value data is produced and consumed so you can plan your
runbooks accordingly. Actually, it’s kind of simple once you
understand it.  First of all, when I say multi-value data, the
term refers to multiple occurrences of an activity’s property or
properties. You can think of this as a table, an array, or a
collection, whatever suits you best. For example, if you ran the
PowerShell command:  get-childitem C:\  You would get back a
collection of objects, each with several properties. This is
multi-value data. You can han