Displaying specific elements in a repeating group

Need help
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Hello all,

I’m trying to display specific data in a repeating group with this workflow:

‘When a group is clicked - show an element.’ This element has to match the group on the left hand side. I.e., They’re competitors. Once ‘TeamTailor’ is clicked, show the relevant ‘TeamTailor’ popup.

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Displaying diffferent Competitors.PNG
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Thank you

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To show specific data in a RepeatingGroup you must alter its data source. You can do that:

  1. With the Display list in a repeating group action
  2. If the RepatingGroup is fed with another element contents, e.g. Group A's Objects, you can alter those contents directly, e.g. with the Display data in a group/popup action, therefore changing the RepeatingGroup’s data source itself.

I might have misunderstood your question, but you seem to be just showing a hidden element with that Show Group Competitor... action, which does not make much sense if you look for showing specific data in a repeating group.

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Thanks @ademiguel ,

The data I’m showing isn’t a ‘List of things’. Atleast, they ‘Competitor’ data isn’t labelled as a ‘List’ anyway.

The only option I get is to display Fields within the Dataset ‘Competitor’, I.e., ‘Competitor Name’, ‘Location’, etc..

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A RepeatingGroup only accepts lists as data source. They may be of different nature (DB records, options of an OptionSet…) but always lists. Even if they have only one element, they must be lists.

That’s why you get the error.

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Data List
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But both of these ‘Competitors’ and ‘Prospects’ are Datasets displayed in a repeating group. And they’re not lists? I don’t understand

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If you check the RepeatingGroup’s data source you’ll see that it’s a list.

As per your two screenshots, the data sources are probably Do a search for... expressions returning the elements you see on screen.

I don’t really understand why you’d use a RepeatingGroup for showing just one item, but you can use the :converted to list operator to turn a single element into a list (with just that one item)

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Hi @ademiguel, thanks for the response again, you#ve been very helpful. I’m trying to find the easiest way to do this. If that means not using a Repeating Group to display the ‘Competitors’, then that’s what I’ll do.

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@ademiguel, what would be the easier/best way to do this?

For more context: A User adds a ‘Competitor’ to their Account they’re working on. This ‘Competitor’ is then displayed on the left-hand side once added. Once that ‘Competitor’ is clicked on, the relevant element becomes visible with that ‘Competitors’ data from the ‘Add Competitor’ form.

Would the structure be a List of entries in the database?

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The left-hand side list, yes, since you are showing a list of Competitor’s associated to the user’s Account. I think you already have this so I won’t dive in.

To show the clicked Competitor’s data, you clearly don’t need a RepeatingGroup, nor any list of entries. You need a Group, fed with that single Competitor.

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Thank you very much!

And I’m guessing it won’t work if we display the left hand-side as ‘Competitor name item #1’ and show element Competitor 1 (pop up).

It would get the same result no? Just a bit less efficient?

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Here I meant a container of any type but Repeating Group or Table, i.e. Group, Popup, Group Focus…

If you want to show the clicked Competitor’s data inside a Popup, you can do:

  1. Display data in a group/popup and indicate the popup, feeding the clicked Competitor.
  2. Show an element and indicate the popup.