Help with Siri Shortcut Variable Wrangling

[Jim_Sewell]

Hi,
I’m trying to learn more about Siri Shortcuts and am expanding on the “Show upcoming birthdays” idea in David’s great Field Guide.

I want to say “Bob Smith’s birthday is on October 7, 1970 which is 15 days from now.”

I have it working but feel the is a better way to do part of it. I am using Find Contracts Where and want to pull the First, Last and Birthday. The way I have it is to put the contact into a variable, Get Details - First name, Get Variable (contact), Get Details - Last Name, Get Variable (contact), Get Details - Birthday.

This seems terribly verbose, especially with magic variables and since this is my first attempt to make a real tool I thought I should ask people who know more than I.

What is the better way to do this?

Thanks

[RosemaryOrchard]

Could you use the “share iCloud link” to share what you already have? That will make it easier to help!

[sylumer]

To me it sounds like you might just want to pull in the contact data into a text action that you then show the contents of.

Here’s a purely contact stored info one to illustrate it.

[Jim_Sewell]

I like that Stephen. Thank you!