Dynamic App Text Reference Expression

It would be useful if when creating a dynamic expression for use of App Text, that instead of having to choose from a dropdown menu listing all app text in the application, that we could instead set an expression as a constraint to find an app text whose ID is equal to a value.

As it is, app text is a bit challenging to work with in regards to list of things. There are ways, but they are cumbersome.

If we could use some kind of constraint when calling an App Text we could set up things like an option set with an attribute that would be the App Text ID. This way it is possible to use the option set as typically done, but instead of only displaying attributes from the option set, we could link things to App Text to make it possible to display the app text values in dropdowns.

Ultimately make it simpler to have a full blown multi language app, so that our option sets translations would be easier to work with and could make use of the ability to upload and download CSVs of the app text.

Or, enable the feature to upload and export option set values…the feature shouldn’t be a hard lift on Bubble side as it would be the same as App Text CSV function and probably very similar to that of data types CSV functions.

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What a shame. In 2024 there is still no way in Bubble to extract an App Text value using a dynamic key, and also to localize Option Sets.

That would be very helpful! Would solve a problem where I want to use a database value as the equivalent of a Text ID.

Hey @boston85719 is there an idea in Ideaboard for this? Please share link if it is there.

I think this is also an important item to reduce WUs in multilingual apps.