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
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:
- Directly connect Create User to Update User and then select the path to user_id [Docs Example]
- 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!
Hi @orbital-module-tec12 , want to let you know that Request pre/post-scripts can now mutate environment variables within Flows (only supported in flow modules for now). Steps to follow:
- Upgrade to the latest app version.
- Open your flow module.
- Hover over your HTTP Request block, select the gear icon, and ensure “Allow scripts to update environment variables” is enabled.
Here’s a small video showing these steps:
