Flipped Vertical Scrolling Repeating Group

[fayewatson]

Hey @garrett.mccurrach,

You can do this by having the messages repeating group sorted with these settings:

Sort by: Creation Date
Descending: No

This will put the oldest posts at the top, and the newest posts at the bottom.

To accomplish Facebook-style scroll, you can create two custom states which automatically cause the page to scroll to the bottom of the repeating group anytime a new message is created. Airdev created an awesome messenger example, and the custom state scroll example is in this thread as well:

Messenger Example:

Releasing a public version of a group messenger built on Bubble

Hey all, happy almost New Year! We at AirDev wanted to do a little experiment and release a group messenger built on Bubble, along with the public editor view of the messenger To see/test the messenger, go to http://messenger.airdev.co To see the editor view, go to https://bubble.io/page?name=index&id=messaging_public&tab=tabs-1 (this is a different app than the one above, in case it ends up breaking and to protect people’s emails)

Custom States setup:

Releasing a public version of a group messenger built on Bubble

Someone may have found this out already but just incase anyone is wondering about having the repeating group scroll to the bottom whenever a new message is created (no matter the user), I did this using custom states here: When the page is loaded, the repeating group scrolls to the last entry of the repeating group (the bottom): [image] Then I created a custom state on the repeating group called ‘Number’ (which is the ‘Count’ of the repeating group’s messages at the time of page load): [ima…