How to find a user info then pass it in the workflow on endpoint

[mark1]

Hello Bubblers,

I’ll open a support ticket but ill post it here for others in the future:

1, I have an inbound API Endpoint with a users email address, that is all fine.
2. I want to find this particular user.
3. I want to send 11 data points of the users back from the API but I cannot as i need to do searches 11 times makes no sense.

Is there a way to use variables in APIs to store data?

[keith]

Hey, @mark1, my “List Popper and Friends” plugin contains two server-side actions that are exactly this: the equivalent of custom states for Backend Workflows.

You’d want to use a FLOW State List SSA action:

Thread for List Popper and Friends is here:

List Popper and Friends: New SSA Plugin for Your Backend Workflow (API Workflow) Needs

Just published a new “free” plugin, “List Popper and Friends”, a set of trivial (but fiendishly clever) Server Side Actions that enable some very useful things in API Workflows. (Like my List Shifter plugin, List Popper and Friends is Karma-Ware. If you find it useful, you can support my efforts here.) The most interesting one (at the moment) is List Popper, which is very very handy for certain types of recursive API Workflows. The application is best explained via example… So here in this tal…