I’ve built a “shopping cart” like functionality in the past using Bubble’s database and overall didn’t like the user experience. Perhaps I went about it the wrong way but here are the cons I ended up with (skip past these bullet points to get to my actual question): Updates to the user cart were s…

Hi! Been there, thought that. This point is a bit of a pain for me too, because for example whenever you publish a list of texts (product name) or numbers (a quantity) to Bubble it cannot contain duplicates. This makes any easy JS handling useless. Unless… I’ve been thinking of using offline in-bro…

[image] vini_brito: Bubble it cannot contain duplicates Hi @vini_brito To make it unique, can you simply add some extra id at the end of a field, like ‘my_table_unix4234239933’ to make it unique? simply replace numbers by unique Unix date? When retreiving, remove the extra with some regex fi…

[image] vini_brito: I know that this feels a bit different from just publishing a list to Bubble, but I’m saying this because we just can’t publish a list of quantities, Bubble would eat (remove) any values that are not unique and we would end up with an incomplete list. Vini! So great to hea…

This has been a VERY top of mind item for me for a few years. I have a system that creates a Data Object for every ‘item’ added to a ‘cart’. I have optimized it as much as possible, but it is beginning to slow things down, and I feel any Cart experience should be as quick as possible to reduce aband…

Hmm, I took a look through the BDK plugin and am not sure “easy_lists” are the way to go. I could be wrong but I don’t see how to manipulate them to display price subtotals, aggregate quantities, total price, etc. @gaurav , any pointers? All that said, I made a plugin that can update a cart stored a…

You can’t export objects as “Things”, but you can export them as parallel arrays of primary Bubble datatypes. It is then up to the user to Create New Things from those outputs. Plugins can neither directly read, modify, nor create Things in the database. BTW, I, too am vexed by the constant cries …

@zelus_pudding I think you might be complicating it much beyond requirement :slight_smile: The very easy way to implement shopping carts is using the repeating group tools plugin + from bdk utilities in my view. I know many people use the plugin for this very purpose. You should be able to do it …

Hi @zelus_pudding , Thanks for pointing out some issues with the shopping cart widget! Here are the changes we’ve made: Optimized how the order is updated (instead of doing a search for an order every time a quantity is changed, instead it now references ‘Current user’s Order’) Disabled the butto…

@zelus_pudding : I made a thing for you…

This is very cool! You make an interesting point about how the native “Bubble way” is arguably better since it’s not exhausting capacity on server side data processing AND because it’s effectively the same speed. So I’m super curious what your exact setup for a “Bubble Way” cart is. I hunted for you…

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keith January 7, 2020, 5:49am 12

Hey, @zelus_pudding: Editor URLs here:

“List Shifter” (no database) way:

“Basic Bubble” way (well, also uses List Shifter, but just as a container for lists):

Regards,
K

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