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Is there a way to use a stash variable as a search parameter with a query tag? Something like:

{exp:stash:set parse_tags=“yes” parse_conditionals=“yes”}
 
<—Find some user by username.—>
{exp:query sql=“SELECT member_id, group_id FROM exp_members WHERE username = ‘something’ “}

{stash:member_id}{member_id}{/stash:member_id}
{stash:group_id}{group_id}{/stash:group_id}

{/exp:query}

<—Find A Member Group with group_id != {stash:group_id}{group_id}{/stash:group_id}—>
{exp:query sql=“SELECT group_id FROM exp_member_groups WHERE group_id != WHAT? “}

Do stuff

{/exp:query}

{/exp:stash:set}

Any suggestions appfreciated

It’s OK Mark - I figured it out, using something like ‘{exp:stash:my_var}’ as the parameter.

I was wrong - did not work, even with parse=“inward”. Would appreciate a hint, even of not possible to do this - thanks