I have a bunch of baseball cards and basketball cards. I’d like to to enter them into a Bubble database using the following fields:
Sport (baseball vs. basketball)
Company (Topps vs. Upper Deck)
Player Name
Card Number
Value
Let’s say I want to enter 50 - 100 trading cards into my database and a friend of mine has about 20 - 30 trading cards to enter into the database. We definitely want to be able to type in the values mentioned above. What’s the best way for a Bubble user to type in and enter in a lot of values at a time?
For example, I wouldn’t want to have to hit “Enter” at the end of every single row. Or, is that unavoidable?
Should I use a Repeating Group, a spreadsheet plug-in, design a form that has a bunch of input fields? Please help us understand the pros & cons of each method, thank you!
Of the 20 videos…the part that is most relevant to my question is 8/20 where they use a pop-up form to input data. The pop-up form is NOT useful to my use case where I want to mass-input a lot of data.
I should have asked my question in a different way. What is the best User Interface to mass-input data like the trading cards info that I mentioned above? The user is expected to enter in tens of rows at a time.
To be clear, I do not want to know HOW. I just want to get people’s feedback on the BEST METHOD for inputting a lot of rows into Bubble’s database. Thank you.
Thank you cmarchan! I thought about using that particular plug-in but was wary because of some negative comments. But based on your vote, I feel a little better about trying it out.
I just bought the Editable Data Table plugin that you linked to ($35) but I cannot find any instructions on how to add new records to a Bubble database using the grid.
Instead, there are only instructions on how to display values from an already existing database. This leads to a chicken-egg problem in that I don’t have a database yet! I want to build a database from nothing by inputting values into it by using the Editable Table.
So…how do I add new values into a Bubble database using this plug-in? Any link to instructions would be greatly appreciated!
You see, the plugin works in such a way that it lets you show your database content to a user, meaning that the database is not empty and has already records. It is not intended to create a database. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Uhhh, cmarchan suggested that this would be a spreadsheet-like experience, that’s why I spent $35 to buy it. Can I get a refund since it cannot do what cmarchan thought it could? This is day 2 of my bubble experience and I’m very new to all of this.
To be clear, I came to the Bubble forums with questions. I received advice and I followed it in good faith. Now I’m told that the plug-in doesn’t do what I was told it would do. Thus, can I get refunded the $35?
I am not familiar with the plugin but if my understanding is correct, you can edit existing data. Maybe one way, from the top of my head, to make this work is to have an input first where the user will provide the number of things he wants to add to the db. Then have a button with a workflow which generates those things. However, I would advice to just go with a repeating group before going down the plugin route.
Hi Pat, we know that the plug-in can edit existing data. That was never the reason for buying the plug-in. If you start from the beginning of this thread, the original question was whether it would allow mass-input of data in order to create & populate a database.
Cmarchan suggested the plug-in would do what I was looking for. I took his advice and purchased it. Then, the Zeroqode team specifically said it could not do what Cmarchan thought it could do. Thus, I’m asking for a refund.
On the left is all the inputs, on the right is the repeating group that reflects the data file it’s saving to. You enter the information you wish to track, hit save, it saves the inputs as a new entry and shows in the repeating group on the right, clears the inputs and just repeat the process
As @bcart0v suggested, would be better to contact the Bubble support directly because all the payments go through the bubble marketplace. Describe your case, I believe they can help you. And we are so sorry that the plugin did not meet your expectations fully.
