Hi everyone,
Does anyone have experiences with filtering results from the data base with an external tool via an API?
For example to filter the posts in an RG in an advanced way that is tailored to the user and not just sorted after e.g. “Created Date”.
If yes, which tools did you use and how did you implement it?
Cheers, Lukas
You can pull down a list of data for a RG in a vanilla order and then add a dynamic sort function to those results which could be dynamically applied per user. Full disclosure - I’ve never done this, but I hope this points you in the right direction.
I’d also have a look into Algolia and see if there’s something you could do there as that plays nicely with Bubble.
I had started looking into https://getstream.io/activity-feeds/ for a project a while back but it started to become over-engineered for what I needed at the time so I put it on the backburner. But it looks like an awesome solution and I’m fairly certain if you have a poke around on the forum you’ll find a few posts about it
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Thank you so so much! This helps a lot and I have been searching for a solution for the longest time.
Cheers, Lukas
You’re most welcome! I’m genuinely interested to see what you do here, so please circle back to this thread occasionally and update us all on your progress - the good/bad/ugly.
I know I’m probably going to need to look at doing something more sophisticated in this space in time on a couple of projects. So I’d love to learn from your experience
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I’m back with an update!
Algolia has actually worked perfectly as of now. It took some time figuring out how to use it and I definitely still have a lot to learn but it seems to be able to solve all my issues with sorting of RGs in Bubble.
Because the native integration over Bubble is only available for the Professional Plan and up, I have used the Plugin by Zeroqode for Algolia and after some reading I am starting to get into it and it’s working well (You do need the Personal Plan for that because it needs APIs, the Plugin is 40 USD).
Thanks again for the help and especially for the tip with Algolia as a possible solution!
Cheers, Lukas
Thanks @lukasraymann02. So happy to hear you’re on a path to fixing your repeating group woes.
I’ve since started playing around with Algolia on a couple of projects. One is on the professional plan so I’m using the native integration and the other is on the personal plan so I’ve just been integrating with their API manually. I’m actually pretty impressed at the speed with things like autocomplete.
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