Adding a Thing to a List of Things with Drag and Drop

[beaverlodge]

Hello Bubble Magicians!

I am trying to do something which seems intuitive to me, but not quite getting it.

I have a series of things (“needs,” like eggs, apples and muffins), which I’m trying add to a “box” for users. Boxes are their own type of thing, which have a list of “needs” that are included in them (from my knowledge this was the best way to set up the process).

I thought it would be nifty to this via a drag and drop group.

Act 1: Set up a repeating group with all the needs that are ordained worthy of going into boxes. Within that group there is a (red) drag/drop group. (Data type:needs)

Act 2: Setup a drop-area for people to drop the need into. Every time they move a need into this area, it gets added to the list of needs within that box. The grey box in the above photo. (Data Type: Box)

Act 3: Get confused why the workflow won’t let me do that.

Is this possible? Or do I need to think outside the box? I haven’t found anything to say that the data type of drop group and drop area have to be the same. Is that the case?

[cmarchan]

They have to be the same.

Think of grabbing an envelope from a basket and putting it into another basket. Both baskets need to hold envelopes … and the only thing that travels is an envelope.

… sorry for the bad analogy!

[beaverlodge]

Okay, thank you. It would be great if this could be a new functionality for future versions. Because adding “items” to a “box of items” is a fairly common database functionality.