AdvisorAdvisorSorry for being unclear. I was attempting to consume instance level properties in a PowerShell collection script.
The PowerShell Collection script tried assigning two ILPs to a variable-- one was a JSON formatted string (auto.events) and another was a plain ol' string (auto.logname). Like so:
$events = '##AUTO.EVENTS##' $logname = "##AUTO.LOGNAME##"
It took a little testing and debugging to figure out that my attempts to iterate through the JSON object were failing because the substitution engine were making these empty strings 
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