'Random' tag assigned to order

[MR-Kees]

Hi!

I'm wondering if there is a way to 'randomly' assign 1 of 2 specific tags to an order using Flow.

The use case here is that we want to randomly send specific inserts in our orders to then see if there's a difference in these customers' shopping behaviour later, where we can use the order tag to bucket the customers.

So, we'd have a flow that on order creation sets 1 of N (in our case 2) possible order tags.

That would be all (our logistics partner handles the rest).

Any ideas on how to accomplish this? I know that the Run Code action does not support math.random so any alternative solutions to this are appreciated. 

Thanks!

[RPiii]

Since you only need it to be psuedo-random, maybe using Run code to check if order.createdAt is even or odd might be sufficient?

[MR-Kees]

Good shout!

AFAIK this would look like "2019-09-07T15:50:00Z", correct?

Would you recommend looking at a specific part (i.e. the seconds) of the DateTime, or is there a way to convert to Epoch/Unix timestamp to get a number that is checkable for even/odd?

Not sure exactly what is available in Run code, haven't used it yet.

Thanks!

[RPiii · Accepted solution]

Run code would let you use Javascript to code something to manipulate the string and evaluate the result.