Auto-binding and the Dynamic list

[neilgellett]

Hi, help and education appreciated,

I have had trouble for days trying to use a dynamic list on any field that has auto-binding. I have written up my two step process with screen shots, hoping someone can explain why my approach doesn’t work, and advise a solution. I don’t want to use a static list, because the selection has other fields associated with it that I then want to use in other use cases and I also want the lists to be added to by users.

Step 1) creating a thing
Step 2) editing that thing using auto-binding

Step 1) creating a thing

Inputs

Add thing

It works brilliantly, no issues. The Input Drop Down reads from a Type with filters, see screen shot - this one is important for my problem statement

Step 2) editing that thing using auto-binding

Display group and pass data from repeating group

Group has these inputs - field in question is Service

As you can see no options are available to bind the data, if I drop back to static (I don’t want to) - the options become available

Thanks for reading, and appreciate assistance if possible.

Cheers

Neil

[mateusproto]

@neilgellett

Thanks for detailing your problem!

My guess is that you are trying to auto-bind a field that is from a different datatype.

Please, if that is the case and you need that it works this way, what you could do instead of auto-binding is using the event “An input’s value is changed” for this dropdown:

https://manual.bubble.io/core-resources/events/element-events#an-inputs-value-is-changed

In the event you create an action to “make changes to thing”:

https://manual.bubble.io/core-resources/actions/data-things#make-changes-to-thing

I hope this helps!

[neilgellett]

Hi Mateus,

Thanks for the reply. I’ve used your method as a workaround for now, I’ve left my Text fields to update via Auto-binding, switched the drop downs to use the input changed > make changes to a thing method.

The datatype piece feels like an enigma I can’t crack, I’ve tried so many different ways.

Thanks

Neil

[neilgellett]

Hi Mateus,

A follow on, I think I’ve narrowed in on the issue, maybe. Wondering if you know:
Field I’m trying to bind to has a Field Type of “Number” - only fields with “Text” are available to auto-bind to in the drop down. How do I change the drop down to be a "Number " format?

Thanks

Neil

[mateusproto]

Hi Neil,

Glad to help and thanks for let me know it worked!

About the field type of number, I am sorry if I didn’t understand it right, but here you can change the dropdown type of choice to number:

https://manual.bubble.io/core-resources/elements/input-forms#type-of-choices

The field you are trying to auto-binding also needs to be the type of number and it needs to enabled in the privacy rules.

Please, let me know if it helps!

Thanks,
Mateus

[neilgellett]

Mateus,

I knew the answer was staring me in the face! Thanks, I’ve fixed it for dynamic choices.

Thanks once again

Neil

[mateusproto]

Neil,

No problem, glad to help! We are all learning!

Best,
Mateus

[neilgellett]

A follow on if you know. If I flip the situation to a Static list, with the options: 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5 - and try to bind this to a number field - it only gives me the fields that are formatted as text to bind to - so clearly the drop box needs to be formatted as a number to resolve this, but the ability to format that drop box disappears when you change it to a static list? Ideas?

Cheers

Neil

[mateusproto]

@neilgellett

When you use static options, the content type is changed to text. My suggestion in this case is, use the toolbox plugin and create a list of numbers, use this list of numbers as the data source for your dropdown list.

This way you can keep the dropdown list as number in the content type.