Hello Bubble Forum,
I am currently building a feature that allows users to add their skills, such as gardening, car mechanic, etc., with the option to add custom skills if they are not already available in the database. I chose this approach instead of a simple text field so that I can filter by skills later and display statistics on the admin dashboard.
I’ve been following the tutorial How to Let Users Create Their Own Options for Multiselect Dropdowns by @romanmg, which is excellent and very informative despite being five years old.
Currently, users can create their own skill, such as “Marketing,” and it successfully adds “Marketing” as a new entry in the Skills data type.
The issue I am facing now is during the account creation process. I want to associate the newly added skill with the user’s Work Experience, defined earlier in the workflow. For example:
Data Type: Work Experience
- Work: Gardener for friends (text)
- Skills: Gardening, Watering (list of skills)
When trying to save the skills, I encounter a problem because they are stored as text rather than being linked to the Skills data type.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to resolve this issue?
