I am trying to create a process where a user (yacht, in this case) can add a list of crew emails, and these will either search for existing users, add them to the yacht’s crew list and send the crew an email, or create a new account for someone, send them an invitation and add them to the crew list.
Right now I have sent up the workflows so this can be done with a single email entry (third option), or the user can upload a file or a list of emails which then get emailed to me and I can add in the back-end. The problem with the first two options is that it won’t happen instantly, as I then need to add things in the back-end, which isn’t great for user experience. The problem with the third option is they need to enter emails one by one, and sometimes this could be 40 or 50 people (again, bad user experience).
I’m looking for ideas on work-around options to enable bulk upload feature to either copy and paste multiple email addresses at once (from a multi-line input) or upload a file with the email addresses and have this automatically create new accounts/link to existing accounts/send invitations.
I’m afraid this is a limitation that Bubble currently has - users cannot import csv files into Bubble’s database (that is only possible through Bubble editor by the app owner). One of the workarounds may be to use Google Spreadsheets and have Bubble read the records from there (through blockspring) and create them in Bubble, but this won’t be very simple configuration.
Thanks,
Levon.
Founder at Bubblewits - Bubble Certified Partner
Your multi input comment sparked something that I wanted to add - bulk email sending by pasting in emails, which I surprisingly got to work (most of the time)
Using a normal Multi Line Input, and allow users to enter email addresses, but there needs to be a line break between addresses (or any consistent thing, like a comma)
Then, in the workflow of sending the email, put in the BCC, CC or To line “Multiline Input’s Value:find & replace”
Then in the Find field just click enter once (a single line break)
And in the Replace field put a semi colon ;
Sorry this doesn’t help the original issue, but it was neat feature I hadn’t thought of until I read this brainstorming, so thought I’d share
I’m building an app that requires Company admin users to create accounts for their employees, this will often be 50+ employees. Not having a way to do this in bulk is a serious problem for me
Do you have any suggestions if the csv bulk uploads is truly not possible?
Hey Nathaniel,
the only option would be to run an API workflow on a list that would do signups one at a time going through your list. A bit tricky but should be possible.
Try searching the forum (@NigelG has explained somewhere in detail how to do run API workflow on a list - you could adapt it to your use case)
If in trouble, let us know, we’ll try to help
