I cant use a custom state as data source for repeating groups and i feel this could help a lot to avoid workunits and many api calls.
from docs i get:
Data source
This is the list of things to display in the group. It can either be
The result of a search using ‘Do a search for,’
The content of a field whose type is list of things, or
The result of an API call through the ‘Get data from an external API.’
I need to filter results after the API call because user are going to be changing filter options frequently and i believe this will increase to much workunits and api calls.
The way i think this can be done is to populate a custom state with the api call data and then apply conditionals to repeating groups that filter this data depending on user selection.
Sorry if i didnt myself clear. I want to add a custom state ( as list) as a data source for a repeating group, yes it can be done but only with a little “hack”. Let me show you:
If i first select data type as an API call object i cant add the custom set from the same type; its not listed (dashboard page custom state).
Bubble gives me a warning about the datatype not being selected, so i proceed to select it as the api call object.
Now all good i can access the custom state. I think it might be a bug or something because if i look for the docs it says RP groups can only choose from other data sources.
The reason i want to do this i because i expect the users to change very often some filters to the API data, so i dont want to be making api calls with filters every time a user changes selection, instead i want only to filter a custom state data locally.
For me, this sound like a bug. I see this issue another time this week, in a different context, but same thing, I needed to copy paste the reference from another place. You should submit a ticket like I did.
Another workaround that probably work is if you set the state in the RG instead
