Environment variable not updated in flows

[orbital-module-tec12 (Hugo Cooke)]

I have found a few topics on this issue from previous poster, but it isn’t clear to me what i have done wrong and the responses haven’t always helped. When i run these http request in collection one at a time, there is no issue. The environment variable updates, and I can pass this into future requests in order to continuing testing. In flows however, a user is create, the id is generated, but the variable doesn’t update leading to issues further down the line. Am I missing something?

The addition of the get and create variable here are attempts to try and get the problem (uncessfull). I had originally simply ran a post-script for when the user is created

// Save user ID as an environment variable

pm.environment.set("user_id", responseJson.id);

});

Thank you in advance

[flows-daniel (Daniel Kimmelmann)]

Hi @orbital-module-tec12

Welcome to the forums!

We don’t support updating Environment variables from within Flows at this time.

From your screenshot, you have two choices:

1. Directly connect Create User to Update User and then select the path to user_id [Docs Example]
2. You will need a select block before your create variable block user_id in order to parse out just the user_id field. Then your get variable block can be used as the input for user_id in your Update User request rather than the send port that it’s connected to now

Let me know if you run into any further issues!