Copying partial content of a small thing into a big composite thing

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Hello bubble community,

can someone please suggest a solution to the following problem? I have nested things, so many small things are subfields of one big composite thing. The user defines the small things step-by-step, and all these small things then ideally would be copied into the subfields of the big thing. But changing the big thing by directly attributing the small things to the big things subfields does not yield the desired result. Bubble seems to attempt the assignement with the objects unique id instead of with the objects content. Is there an elegant way to copy the content of many small things into one big composite thing? A value-by-value assignement is not doable due to the huge number of copy operations, it would take weeks to write the workflows.

Thanks for any ideas, many regards … O.

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Could you provide a real world example? I have a hard time sorting out questions like this without seeing a real case to wrap my head around

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Hi Andrew,

thanks, yes, here the example. Three things are defined:

Text
Letter
Delivery

A delivery is composed of several letters, and a letter is composed of several texts. For instance there be 20 texts per letter, and 10 letters per delivery. After creating a new thing “Delivery”, which naturally has 10 letter subfields, and each one of these subfields has 20 text subfields, I would like to allow the user to directly fill in the 12th text in the 7th letter. The user defines the text thing to fill in, but how do we efficiently copy this content into the right subfield of the superthing “Delivery”?

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I’m not quite sure what you’re asking here, maybe I’m missinf a point.

I would create a “text”, and be sure to add that “text” in the “list of texts” on a “letter” that’s already been created. Now, any time I change that text, it’s automatically updated on the letter.

I’m assuming you have a type of thing called Text, in which case, I’d add a field on that thing called Letter, and be sure to save the appropriate letter to the text, as well.

Is this making sense?

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Hi Andrews,

thanks for your reply. Yes, your answer is spot-on, and you are giving a very interesting solution. So you would work with lists of things instead of named subfields of the thing type, And you would add members to the list instead of having fixed list sizes. Will have to think about this in some detail and do some examples, meanwhile thank you very much for your idea!

All the best, O.