Passing Dynamic Number of Elements and Attributes in Orchestrator

Question

i am having trouble determining the best way, from a powershell snippet in a Run .Net Activity, to pass a dynamic list of elements with each element having a dynamic list of attributes .   Example:
on one call of the activity the data might be the following:
element1 with 3 attributes
element2 with 2 attributes
element3 with 0 attributes
on another call of the activity the data be the following:
element1 with 0 attributes
element2 with 3 attributes
i understand how to create objects, arrays, and hashes. i would like to know the best way to pass the data above from the .Net activity powershell snippet (where the data is created) to another activity.   Ideally I would like to pass
a custom object created with powershell (not an array or hash), but research tells me that it is not possible to publish an object on the Orchestrator databus.  Any assistance is appreciated.

Answer 1

You can try combining the parameters into a single string in PowerShell separated by a delimiter like a semi-colon. Then you can have a single parameter in the Invoke Runbook activity. Once the parameter is passed you can then use the Split Field activity
that is included in the Data Manipulation IP. 
http://orchestrator.codeplex.com/releases/view/83934 
You could do something similar for the SQL Query. Just combine the string to a single output in PowerShell and use the PARSENAME function, or something similar, to separate out your parameters. 
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