Just wanted to share a fix or a workaround for complex data structures when using @ZeroqodeSupport Fuzzy Search plugin. Thank you Zeroqode for your help. If your Fuzzy is consuming a lot of workload units, or it is not working with complex searches, try this. I’ll share my example. Summary: instea…

Not sure this is accurate - its my understanding that Fuzzy Search will load all the data on initialization, and then essentially store that in memory, so that any search utilizing Fuzzy Search will filter based on that data. In both cases, if you reload the page, it will perform the search again t…

Earth is round and this saves WU units.

If you have the time go ahead and run the tests. I’d love to know what results you get. Make sure you tag me too

Since it’s now referencing a state instead of a Search, the plugin won’t make any calls. It will work with what is in the state. This is just the nature of how data sources work in Bubble. Any and all Search set as element data sources will run their queries when either the element is visible or th…

But won’t storing full results in a custom state be really expensive and may even break the browser if the number of elements is high? Or is it like Bubble will apply some intelligence and get only some elements?

I don’t know about the inner workings of the mentioned plugin, but one thing is for sure: if you store an unconstrained search in a custom state and the plugin works with that in the client-side you will be sure about the total WU spent, and it will be the one of search itself. [image] mghatiya: …

[image] ademiguel: There are drawbacks in using this strategy of course. You are indeed downloading ALL records, which can consume a lot of WU, potentially even more than those spent by the plugin working without this strategy @karaulal maybe you can share your experience on what happens if l…

[image] mghatiya: 100K, 1M, 10M items Won’t happen 1-10k can but there’s still a solid delay

Large data sizes will kill performance in any browser-based app. It is even more problematic with Bubble since we cannot save data into local storage directly, it still gets loaded into browser memory first, even when using local storage Bubble plugins. Unfortunately there is no “Bubble Intelligence…

This might clear some air [image] Solution: how to save workload units in nested repeating groups via custom states Tips Hi community, Here is a way to save massive amounts of workload units using custom states. Use case (wrong): I had a repeating group and …

Fuzzy Search workaround that saves WU consumption

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This might clear some air

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Fuzzy Search workaround that saves WU consumption

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