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Fill dynamic URL variables from database in API connector action

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#1

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to integrate with an external REST API over which I don’t have control. It looks like so:

GET https://www.example.com/employee/[employee-id]/name

The part which is [employee-id] is dynamic, so I’m using squared brackets.

What I don’t understand though: How do I now fill the value dynamically from a field called “employeeId” stored with every user in my Bubble database? Of course I have to uncheck the “private” checkbox in my API call section, so much is clear. But how do I actually refer to the database field in the context of an action API call?

#2

Did you try “Current user’s employeeid” in the workflow action?

#3

Ho. Check if your api is defined in bubble as “data” or “action”. I think it should be data in this case.
Ciao.

#4

Just tried it, unfortunately does not seem to work. :frowning:

#5

Hm, changing it to data does not seem to solve the issue neither. It really seems that the url parameter is simply not filled, but I have no idea how to achieve that.