Updating an Object populated from an API

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Hi,

I’m syncing and updating some data via the Sage API. I have the sync setup and working fine. When updating the data back into Sage it seems the API requires a complete object of the data, not just the fields I’m interested in.

Because of this at the point of update I’d like to requery the API and amend the object returned by the API with the update values, leaving the additional fields I don’t need alone.

I’m thinking I could use a set value step with the value set to the api output, and type as object and then access/change specific values within a ‘Set Value’ object? Is this possible, if so how would I do this?

The alternative seems to be to use a group step and list every element of the object which makes it prone to error if things change, and quite a long way of doing it.

Thanks for any guidance!

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A hacky solution is to use the Repeat step and select your object wrapped in an array, e.g.: Repeat {{ [your_object] }}, and inside you can use the Set Values. If I'm not mistaken, in the Repeat settings, you have to use the Exclude filter

You might want to open a feature request for the idea you envisioned :slight_smile: