Hi Ines, can you upload the oml?
Did you debug and the value is saved on your local variable? do you need to save on local variable?(you can pass directly to the event inside the flow).
Usually this happening cuz the developer didnt do the match of the event item on the block level (I mean when you choose the event handler) and just do the assign inside the action flow, check if it is that the problem.
Hope I could help you
Cheers,
Carlos Lessa