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Create list "from scratch" with a few items

Need help
#1

I have a scenario where I want to delete several different scheduled workflows, the IDs of which I have saved in different fields on a Company. Instead of creating a bunch of steps in to delete each one at a time, I’d like to use “Cancel a list of scheduled API workflows” and get them all in one.

I swear I used to be able to do this by doing something like First Item:converted to list plus item: Second Item plus item: Third item etc. to build a list from scratch when it’s not something I can get from a search or some similar option where the list is returned to me from Bubble.

Is there a way to do this, or has that feature gone away?

#2

While you “should” be able to do this you may need to do it in steps: like, create a custom state (list type) and add the first item, and then append items using the :plus item:plus item operators in a single expression. I’m AFK, but there should be a way to do this.

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#3

Yes. You can use Keith’s plugin below which is very useful in general. Use “FLOW State List SSA” to create an empty list of texts and then in your “Cancel a list of scheduled API workflows” you could do “result of step 1’s list of texts (which will be empty to start) plus item: _____ plus item: _____ plus item: ______ etc”

#4

Hmm. It wasn’t clear to me whether this question was about backend or front end workflows (I’d assumed front end).

#5

I was trying to do this on the back end. I was doing more troubleshooting and noticed that I do have the “converted to list” option for other types of data, but when doing it for a text field on a Thing (the scheduled workflow IDs I mentioned above) I don’t get that option. Not sure what the logic is there or if there’s a way to bypass it.

Sounds like the plugin may do the trick though I’d rather not install a plugin for this instance. Would it work on the backend?

#6

Well if there’s no :converted to list operator on strings you could do what I described.

OR, concatenate your strings using a delimiter like comma-space and then :split.

This is probably what Bubble expects you to do with strings. There’s a propensity with Bubble to NOT have duplicate ways of achieving the same effect, even when it would make sense syntactically.