Maybe I am missing something, but it doesn’t seem like there is an easy way of returning nested data to a user when building a plugin. It would be useful if in a plugin we could define data types similar to the data tab and then actually set the data when building the plugin. Any plugin builders h…

[image] ryley.randall: It would be pretty cool if we could define contact in the plugin editor and the fields that are part of the contact. Then when a bubble app has the plugin installed you could reference the element and the fields of the plugin similar to how we currently reference data in t…

Yes, that’s exactly what I’m trying to achieve. I wanted an element of my plugin to publish a list of structured data types, it could be JSON to be a data source of a repeating group. I don’t think ot can be done with publishState right @vini_brito ?

I see there are two things going on here, one about publishing a list and another about programmatically creating key value pairs… well, for the first one we can use the returnfeature from a server side action and then return a single or a list of key value pair(s), with the value of a key being a p…

Thanks, @vini_brito . I’ve done similar with SSA, but what I need is a way to expose internally-generated structured data through a published state client-side. Or maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re proposing?

It seems like there could be a tool similar to defining custom data in the API connector. We could give it a sample JSON response and those data types would appear in the apps using the plugin?

:+1: That’s pretty much what I was thinking.

So Bubble allowing us to structure the app’s database via plugin installations. Hmmm… :thinking: That would be interesting! I’m sold on it :smile:

This wouldn’t be very Bubbly don’t you think? Why not allow that as a WF action? If you need to run it from a plugin you could fire anevent and run the action.

[image] JonL: This wouldn’t be very Bubbly don’t you think? No, it feels Bubbly because it happens automagically. You install, bam, everything in place. Anyway, via workflows would be great too! Also quite Bubbly.

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sudsy August 28, 2019, 3:26pm 23

@lottemint.md figured it out!

See this thread. It’s anything but straightforward, and it’s far from ideal, but it works! Until Bubble provides a better solution, it’s the only way I know to go about it.

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