https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/how-to-save-retrieve-data-model-variables-in-script-or-service/m-p/41554#M17430 <P>Hello all,</P><P>We're currently trying to save some data in an external database using data models. We've been successful in doing so with a simple form and Store entity task.</P><P>However, our use case is a bit more complex - the process requests calculation results from an external source through REST and we want to store the response of this request in a data model (instance? variable?) instead of a process variable. This way we could keep using the store task mapping the variables (doing so like resultJson.prop1, resultJson.prop2)</P><P>Is there a way to achieve this?</P><P>We also noticed that after a store task, the data model variable .getEntity() returns null - is that expected?</P> Tue, 28 Jul 2020 16:47:04 GMT mathewsmotta 2020-07-28T16:47:04Z https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/how-to-save-retrieve-data-model-variables-in-script-or-service/m-p/41554#M17430 <P>Hello all,</P><P>We're currently trying to save some data in an external database using data models. We've been successful in doing so with a simple form and Store entity task.</P><P>However, our use case is a bit more complex - the process requests calculation results from an external source through REST and we want to store the response of this request in a data model (instance? variable?) instead of a process variable. This way we could keep using the store task mapping the variables (doing so like resultJson.prop1, resultJson.prop2)</P><P>Is there a way to achieve this?</P><P>We also noticed that after a store task, the data model variable .getEntity() returns null - is that expected?</P> Tue, 28 Jul 2020 16:47:04 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/how-to-save-retrieve-data-model-variables-in-script-or-service/m-p/41554#M17430 mathewsmotta 2020-07-28T16:47:04Z