Hello everyone! We’ve just released a new feature: Option sets. Option sets allow you to have a static list of choices or Options which are global to your app. This is great for situations where you know ahead of time what options are possible for a variable - things like days of the week, marital …

oof. that would have been nice to know a while ago. thanks for the help though. :upside_down_face:

There are no privacy settings for options. So, do not put sensitive data as an option’s display or one of its attributes. What does this mean? How or in what case does is this data accessible to anyone? If i want to “hard code” a list of emails that are approved for beta sign up, and check again…

@JayM It means anyone with programming knowledge can access the data in your option sets, even if the page doesn’t show it to them. You should store your beta sign-up emails in the database, that way you can control the privacy settings for them. I’d probably lock them off to everyone, and have an …

We’ve gotta get a sorting feature and CSV upload for option sets. Otherwise, option sets are a fantastic feature that goes against the entire philosophy of bubble - SPEED. Adding hundreds of options individually takes way too long. Also, there should be an option to delete duplicates!

Agree. Automatically sorting option sets into alphabetical order would be an amazing feature. I have built an option set with hundreds of categories and can’t sort them to display in alphabetical order.

Another feature would be to programmatically upload them with their secondary attributes as well. I need to label a list of thousands of static options with multiple attributes and doing this manually is unfeasible. @eve Is there any plan to update the option set management system? It’s been radio…

+1 for new feature of being able to sort a Repeating Group by an Option Set. Currently, I have a field called Status which is an option set and that field doesn’t show in the list of fields you can sort the RG by. :sob:

I haven’t seen this mentioned so I wanted to notify everyone: An Option set’s display text (the built in attribute) will keep the original name for search results. Even after you change it. Example: I have an Option set for Colors. If I change “Red” to “Rojo” bubble will retain the original name…

Make a RG that has a Data Type of Status and Data Source Get All Options. Then for each cell of that repeating group put another repeating group that does a search for User (or whatever) whose status is current cell’s Status.

[New Feature] Option sets

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FYI: @arturio put together an interesting Option Sets Chrome extension: [New Extension] Bulk import from CSV file for Option Set

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