Body assigned value from powershell task variable always seen as nothing in it

[eliassal]

Hi, I started your sendemail which worked fine until I started to populate the body by a value from a prcedent powershell task in which I initialize the variable.

In send email I do this
Body: "To test variable value: $({getIssues}.alertSonarIssues)"

and the variable is populated in the PS task as follows

- powershell: |
   Write-Host "calling sonar to see how many issues"
......
     Write-Host "##vso[task.setvariable variable=alertSonarIssues;isOutput=true;]$allMajorissuesOnlyIssues"
.......
  name: 'getIssues'
  displayName: 'GetAllIssues'

When I do Write-host of the variable in a 3rd task. I see the text in the pipeline debug screen which is not nothing

Thanks for your help