Changing a Repeating Group Order

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I don’t know if anyone can help - I’ve been through many tutorials on this and I’ve noticed flaws in the solutions I’m finding.

I’m trying to allow users to change the order of items in a repeating group - which has been suggested that I have an"Order" field on the item and have the repeating group sort by this field.

It works - BUT - if the user is too quick and double clicks or triple clicks etc, the workflow / server load time seems to be too slow to catch up and it messes up the order numbers or just decides not to work at all.

Has anyone figured out a way to reorder a Repeating Group using states so the results happen instantly in the browser and then uploads the changes to the back end?

Thanks in advance

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Hello,

You really don’t need to have an “order” field. You could sort a repeating group using your current and/or different fields. As long as they are something that is used for filtering e.g. date created, numbers, etc. basically something measurable.

There are a also a handful of factors that affect a repeating group’s speed. To name a few, it can be your data type, how you structured your search, the elements in a repeating group, size, the use of styles, etc.

If you wish to filter a repeating group REALLY FAST, I suggest you checkout the Daisy Chain Filtering Method. Here’s a loom video of how it works. Credits to one of the most awesome bubble devs https://twitter.com/Andrew_Vernon

Hope this helps!

Best,
Nino

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Thanks for taking the time to reply - I’ll have a look at the Daisy Chain method now and see if it can solve things for me!

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Just wanted to come back to this one for anyone that was struggling with something similar…

I did use the daisy chain method-ish (thanks @ntabs )… but instead of daisy-chaining API workflows like in the video example, I daisy chained via custom states so that the events would happen instantly in the users browser.

I set 5 custom states dependent on whether the item is moving up or down:
• List from beginning until the 1or 2 before cell user clicks on
• Cell user clicks on
• Cell before/after user clicks on
• List from 1 or 2 after cell user clicks on until end of list
• New order of list

Populate the data you need into the first 4 custom states, then build the new list in the 5th new order custom state and set your Repeating Group to read from the new order.

I hope that makes sense - hopefully a combination of watching the video and reading this will click things into place.

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