Can't decide on ONE way to pass a just posted value to another API query

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Thank you, @Apple !

As I have used session variables before that value has been related to a value that within the given session will NOT change -- as in the personal id of the logged-in User. So, in that sense it is not a "variable" once the session is initiated. The "employee_id", for instance, will no longer qualify as a "variable" in the most technical sense. It becomes a fixed value all during that session.

What I am using is essentially a Global query to generate a constantly changing unique "story_id" that is called for at the time the form displays for all users in their sessions. Concatted with their user id it is unique and different from second to second.

Exactly why I posted.

I want to pass into the actual API sql query so that the query launches with the story_id just posted as the WHERE condition.

@Apple

Or if you want to skip the Library actions, just put both database queries sequentially, so the 2nd query directly grabs the variable outputted by 1st query

That is what I was trying to show with my screenshots and tried to explain -- that instead of writing a whole new query to add to my page that in the API that does the Insert, I would add a 2nd action to that insert API that grabbed the Posted story id value and gave it a separate name that I could reference by itself in the

I added another step to my insert form query to grab the POSTED story_id and save that value as a named variable that I can refer to in my Get Record API.

I haven't used the Library Actions yet.

I'm looking at this now:

Creating Reusable Actions with Server Connect Library

Overview Server Connect Library allows you to create reusable actions, which can be included in any of your API Actions: [Screenshot_13] This way you can define some complex actions once, use input parameters for the values and then execute or include them in different API Actions, when needed. Using Library Actions There are two ways of using Library Actions - Include and Exec: [Screenshot_8] Both of them run the selected Library Action but in different ways. Include Action The Includ…

Thanks again! As soon as I grasp this I will be using these.
In PHP, of course, I frequently used the equivalent on the server side.
Only in PHP they are called FUNCTIONS or CLASSES.