How to insert the right dynamic data? (challenge with building a Q&A app)

[faly]

Hi everyone,

I’ve been using Bubble for a week. As a first project, I’m trying to build a simple Q&A app. I’m basically following this tutorial from the blog.

I have a challenge with the “Submitting & displaying answers” part of the tutorial. Here it is in a nutshell:

If I post two questions, let’s say question 1 and question 2, and I intend to post an answer 1 to question 1, it also appears under question 1, which was intended, but also under question 2, which was not intended.

Here are a couple of screenshots from the tutorial that I’m following.

I’m not sure what dynamic data I should insert instead of Current cell’s Question answers’s Answer content so that answer 1 only appears under question 1, answer 2 under question 2, and so on.

I also inspected the database and my workflows but could not detect the source of my mistake.

What would you suggest?

Thanks.

[austin3]

Your solution will depend on how your database is set up. If your answers are being displayed under multiple questions, you likely have one of the following going on:

1. You aren’t properly linking the question and answer together.
2. You aren’t properly displaying only the answers related to a particular question

There are generally two ways for establishing 1 to many relationships (1 question, many answers) in bubble. You can create a list of answers on the question item, then display that question’s answer list. Or, you can create answer items with a Question field, then display “Do a search for Answers: Question = YOUR QUESTION”.

Hope this helps

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[faly]

@austin3 Thanks for your reply. Much appreciated.

I’ve tried to debug my issue and still either a given answer appears under all questions, or it does not appear at all.

Here’s a preview of my Questions data type:

And here’s a preview of my Answers data type:

It seems to me that the answer is properly linked to its original question, or did I miss something?

For the time being, the repeating group contains a list of answer items with a Question field. Yet I didn’t find how to display a search for Answers: Question = My Question as you suggested.

Anything I might have missed jumping out at you or shall I provide more context ?

[austin3]

You can set the data source of the repeating group to:

“Do a search for Answers”

And for the parameters, set the following:
Original question = Parent group’s question

This assumes that the repeating group is in a group with the data type set to Question, and the appropriate question set. You can replace “Parent group’s question” with any reference to your question object.

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