I’ve just started experimenting with the mobile beta, and so far it appears to be a pretty good fit for my app use case. However, I’m struggling a bit with the lack of dropdowns and how to best solve that.
Here’s what I’m working with:
I have a view with a vertical list that contains a list of activities. A user needs to be able to add a new activity, which includes data points such as a project and an activity type. In the web version of the app I accomplish this with a popup and a couple of drop-downs but I’m struggling with the best way to translate this to the mobile version. The existing posts about dropdowns and the Bubble help pages really don’t seem to help (unless I’m completely missing something).
Option 1: I was thinking that I could use a floating group instead of a popup, add a couple of input fields and use icons to open a sheet with a vertical list , one for the list of projects, one for the list of activities. But, what I’m struggling with here is this: how do I populate the value of the list on the sheet to the input box on the floating group? Below is an example of what I tried from a layout perspective.
Option 2: Replace the floating group with a new view where the fields are on the view itself and the sheets does the same thing as option 1. But, I seem to encounter the same issue here.
I guess it boils down to two questions:
- What is the best approach to accomplish this? Option 1 seems like the more logical approach based on apps I use normally, but is it really?
- How do I extract a value from a list on a sheet and populate a) an input field on a floating group or b) an input on a view with that value?
It feels like I’m missing something very elementary here, so any suggestions would be appreciated.
