Editing data in a form without deleting existing data

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Hi. I’m fairly new to Bubble and I seem to be having what I think is a ridiculous problem.

I have a user form with a bunch of inputs (date, category, type, cost, etc). I’ve set up an edit popup for these data in case a user wants to edit one of the fields. Everything works fine; the input fields all show the current responses and the user can edit any of the fields. The problem is if the user only edits one or two fields, the other fields which are already populated in the dataset are erased. This seems super counterintuitive and I can’t figure out why it’s happening.

My workflow is a simple “make changes to a thing” and I’ve set all the input fields to accept changes. What am I missing? Do I need to create an “only when” of some sort to prevent data that already exist from being deleted?

Thanks!

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If you’re doing what you’ve described correctly, then that definitely shouldn’t be happening.

So, you’re either doing something wrong, or Bubble is broken.

It’s far more likely to be the former (and I can probably guess the error)… but without more details no one can say for sure what’s going wrong.

So share some screenshots of your input setup and workflows if you want some more help here.

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@adamhholmes, where’s the smart money? Existing values in the placeholder fields instead of initial content/default value?

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yep… 99% certain… (might be surprised though…)

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Yup. I’ve got lots to learn. Thank you both.

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