Built in way to define categorical data types

[jamesbond]

Adding this feature will not prevent anyone from doing it the way they were doing it before. All the workarounds I’ve seen so far are either time consuming or complex. The method you mentioned may only work for a few (certainly not me) because it can be very confusing - especially in larger, more complex applications.

[alex5]

Hi ,
I posted a very similar request to Bubble more than a year ago.

Enumeration Types

Hi @josh and @emmanuel, I’d love to hear your thoughts on the following: A while back I asked about having a field type that allowed one of several pre-defined entries. I think the technical term for that is an enumeration type. These field types are great for fields that will contain statuses, categories, etc., where there is a limited number of (usually text) options and only one will be selected. Two aspects matter to me: A) Defining the enumeration field type I s/b able to enter stati…

I think there has been no action on it.

[zelus_pudding]

This is spot on Alex! Maybe heart the my original post as well as Neerja’s to help the bubble team gauge community interest.

[zelus_pudding]

@neerja any updates on this? Am aching for enumerated types.

EDIT*: Is neerja still with bubble? Her account doesn’t seem to be valid anymore

[zelus_pudding]

@cal and the other Bubble engineers have saved us we can now do this with Option Sets

[New Feature] Option sets

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 status, team name for a given user, etc. You can create them in the Data tab, add various options to them, and even add attributes to your options. You can use option sets anywhere you would use a nor…

[mike_verbruggen]

Good guess.

She is no longer visible on the staff page
https://bubble.io/people

It looks like she stopped at Bubble around October.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/neerjabalaji/