How do I display a database list separately in a RG

jerneva.cowell · 2025-04-07T22:50:42.354Z

Hi so I am pretty new to Bubble and I have been having this issue from the very start. I think it’s about time I learnt how to do this.

I have a database list with 4 things in it.

I have a RG which I have a build a card in. I want to be able to have a different thing from the DB list to appear in different cards.

This is what I am trying to achieve

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This is what I have

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DB

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RG setup

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Query

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My assumption is that I would have select display each item by this is not a option

ademiguel · 2025-04-08T05:50:51.809Z

The RG type of content should be text and you should feed Pathway-contents’ Answers as the RG data source.

jerneva.cowell · 2025-04-08T08:33:30.940Z

Thanks for your response, but I dont understand if I change the content to text how I can use the RG to get information from the database. As I literally just said what you said above and RG is now blank, even after using the do a search for feature in the nested group thats within the RG

ademiguel · 2025-04-08T08:41:39.979Z

I misunderstood your question.

However, I think there’s something wrong with your architecture. You are feeding Pathway-contents records in the RG, but you are trying to show Answers from just one of them.

jerneva.cowell · 2025-04-08T11:10:19.452Z

To give context, I have a quiz.. in the backend admin can add a quiz question and the 4 answers. I add them as a list as I want to answers to be randomised. So what I really want to do is list out all the answers from the list.

ademiguel · 2025-04-08T11:21:56.081Z

Then you shouldn’t feed the RG with different Pathway-contents records, but with the Answers field of a certain Pathway-contents record!

RGs feed each of their cells with a record of their data source! If you feed the RGs with several Pathway-contents records, that’s what you’ll get. You can’t expect to show a different answer in each of the cells because each cell is referring to a whole Pathway-contents record.

You have two options

You can limit the UI to a specific Pathway-contents and show its answers, one per cell
If you need to show several Pathway-contents, each of them with their answers, you’ll need to nest another RG inside each of the first RG cells. The outer RG 's data source are Pathway-contents records, and inner RG’s data source is that cell’s Pathway-contents record Answer field.

jerneva.cowell · 2025-04-09T21:18:12.330Z

I am a little confused by what you are saying. Or maybe it’s just my understanding.

I have entered all the records into the answers list, as I want to easily be able to randomise the answers order. So each pathway content has an id and each answer is just in a list.

ademiguel · 2025-04-09T21:41:28.679Z

OK let’s try with some step-by-step guidance.

The below RG should have Type of content text, and as Data source, one specific Pathway-contents' Answers. Just for now, just do Search for Pathway-contents:first item's Anwers

jerneva.cowell:

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Then, change the Type of content of Group Pathway-content to text and set its Data source to Parent group's text.

That should make each answer to appear in a diferent chip.

Disclaimer

Now you won’t be able to show Answers of any other Pathway-contents but the first one. However, with the below solution I gave you, you’ll be able to show more if needed.

ademiguel:

If you need to show several Pathway-contents, each of them with their answers, you’ll need to nest another RG inside each of the first RG cells. The outer RG 's data source are Pathway-contents records, and inner RG’s data source is that cell’s Pathway-contents record Answer field.

Reread my posts above once you’ve completed

jerneva.cowell · 2025-04-13T19:53:07.501Z

Sorry for the delay, I have been a little ill.

I have done that and nothing displays

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hanan1 · 2025-04-14T04:45:20.079Z

hello! just like @ademiguel said, you need to nest another RG inside the questions RG, but it would be much better if the “answers” property were a list of texts in your database instead of a single string.
in your case, just put a RG of type text inside the question’s cell, the data-type would be this cell’s answers split by (,). like this.

boston85719 · 2025-04-14T04:58:32.995Z

@jerneva.cowell you do not need to nest any RG

Create an option set you call ‘answers’ (I say this assuming all questions will have the same set of 4 choices (ie: Yes, NO, Maybe, Sometimes)…and these four choices are your option set values.
Create the card with a single RG that is your list of options.

NOW, if you want different answer choices for each question, again, absolutely no need to nest any RG. You can instead ensure your data type of ‘question’ has a field called ‘answer’ and that field is of type text or could be related to another data type (other data type only if your creation of answer choices is needing to be updated often or user created).

So let’s say you have a data type simply named ‘question’ and a field called ‘answer_choices’ you will have a group that is the container and that group will have a data source of ‘question’ and then your single RG inside of the group container will be of type ‘text’ and your source will be ‘parent groups questions’ answer_choices’…this allows you to have a group container with text for the question and rg for the answer choices and simple reference for saving the selected answers knowing which question it is for.

ademiguel · 2025-04-14T07:33:13.427Z

You’ll need to set Text Parent group's Pathw content to Parent group's text too.

jerneva.cowell:

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If you keep not getting Answers being shown, come back with the following:

Check that all Pathway-contents records have their Answers field with actual answers in it
Send screenshots of the following elements in the editor
2a. RepeatingGroup Pathway-content
2b. Group Pathway-content
2c. Text Parent group's Pathw

jerneva.cowell · 2025-04-15T08:19:45.516Z

Hi all!

I had to mix all your approaches and I have successful done this now. Thanks for your patience with me