Broken returning a result of a do a search for in an api response

Im unable to return the values of a “do a search for” item as part of a return data from api step in a back end workflow.

I have a public API workflow that runs without authentication or privacy rules ( just for testing now) so Im sure its not a auth issue.

Im testing it though postman and I know my setup is correct because if I use dummy text then I get the values as part of the API response.

but whenever I want to reference a value obtained form a do a search for query then it goes empty.

this is the setup of the return step:

I get all the dummy text expect for the value of the do a search for in the user_name field

you’d have to redo the search for each field OR do the search outside of the workflow step and then reference the result in each field

tried both ways(individual search on each field, or reference to a prev step) but the final value was not coming through.