Flow - Function problem

Flow - Function problem

I have spent days trying to get this to work, but I cannot get it to work.  I have a flow that triggers on a zoho form submission.  This form has a field called "Employee_ID" on it.  I need to fetch the creator record and retrieve the record ID so I can then update that record after some other actions occur.  

this code retrieves the record:  

  2. string GetEIDRecV2(string EIDNum)
  3. {
  4. result = zoho.creator.getRecords("owner","ta-people","Employee_Details","Employee_ID==\"9999887\"",1,1,"licensetrackingconnector");
  5. RecID = result.get("ID");
  6. return RecID;
  7. }
But this code will not retreive anything: 

  2. string GetEIDRecV2(string EIDNum)
  3. {
  4. result = zoho.creator.getRecords("owner","ta-people","Employee_Details","Employee_ID==\"EIDNum\"",1,1,"licensetrackingconnector");
  5. RecID = result.get("ID");
  6. return RecID;
  7. }

EIDNum is a set variable box in the Flow.  Even in testing if I enter 9999887 it retrieves blank record.  If I hardcode the EIDNum in the script it will work.

Second problem is when I retrieve the record with the hard coded EIDNum I cannot get it to output the Record ID that is returned so I can use it in the rest of the flow.  

Any help would be appreciated.