Having a container be like "page's thing"

constantine · 2024-09-17T05:21:37.665Z

Hello everybody,

I am building an app on top of openBuild and started going down the SPA route.

I have a situation where user inputs data in a section I have and I want to pass these for display at another section upon user submission.

I figured how to do this easily on multi-page setting by setting Page’s thing. Is there something similar for containers?

I know there is parent’s group thing, but I have hierarchy with multiple groups up, since the container is basically the page in this case, so I need multiple “parents” up.

Is something like that possible or I have to switch to multi page? I am quite early in the development process so don’t mind to switch.

eliot1 · 2024-09-17T09:20:39.058Z

Hi, you can do the same with groups. As they also can hold a data type and data source.

To populate the source you can:

Do “search for” in the database
Reference another element source
Use current user infos,

You can populate data with a “display data in a group” action in a workflow.

What I usually do on SPA for product detail pages (or equivalent):

Use “Go to page” with arbitrary text to navigate
- Go to page index
- arbitrary text = level-1/level-2/…/slug (or id)
Use conditionnal based on the Get URL item# n to show a group
Use Get URL item # n with the right datatype to populate the data source of the group shown

constantine · 2024-10-16T07:26:49.188Z

Thank you eliot1, it works!

system · 2024-11-26T05:21:49.479Z

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