Find a thing and change its field?

[fze]

Hi
I’m very confused about how to work with “do a search for”.
I have a simple problem, an endpoint workflow runs and have some data objects.

I want to search for a thing that has the same data in one of its fields as an object from the workflow. Then I want to make changes to that thing.

The object from the workflow does not appear in the dropdown.
And I don’t wont to select change the first item, since I don’t know if the things is actually the first item…

What would be the proper and simple way to do this?

[cmarchan]

For any search in Bubble you setup constraints that allow you to find the first item that suits those constraints:

In your case perhaps you can click here to open the constraints box and then set the search for the first item:

[jeffrey.j.obrien]

@fze - This sounds like you need a Backend workflow

On the back end, create an Endpoint with a parameter to send through that NODE. The Endpoint workflow should include Make a Change to a Thing

On the front end, schedule a workflow. In your search, you will specify where UID = UID. You then pass that Node through to the endpoint

In my example, I am doing a bunch of stuff on the backend in my workflows including updating records

[fze]

Thanks for the reply
I cant make it work. I don’t want to change the first item I want to find a specific item and then change it.

I made a simplified test of the problem.

The database:

If I type in Orange as the fruit and Pink as the colour. Then press the button, I want the field Color to change for the “Orange” thing

What would the step by step workflow look like?
Thanks for the reply!

[fze]

@jeffrey.j.obrien I don’t really follow, If I make a new endpoint that takes UID(string) as a parameter. In that workflow how do I make the search for a thing that has a field with the same value as the UID parameter?
Please see my other reply above

[fze]

Solved it! thanks @cmarchan and @jeffrey.j.obrien
The confusing part was that the “search for Fruits/Nodes” pop-up disappeared when pressing the “make changes…” pop-up… and also the first item nomenclature.
(its not the first item in the data base, its the first item who matches the constraints)

I managed to use the node data when making another API workflow, this was confusing since the data is there already.

Here is the fruit solution ( press the arrow to make the search to pop up )

Cheers!