This is indeed an annoying deficiency in Bubble - i.e. that there’s no simple way to get the index of an item in a list. (You can access the index of a cell in a repeating group but not of an item in a list.)
The good news is that there’s a very clever pure-Bubble work-around. There is no need for a RG, no need to iterate, no need for a plugin, and no need for Javascript. Kudos to @vovazk for coming up with it.
By way of overview… Given a list and a thing in that list, you can determine the index of that thing by:
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Formatting the list as text where each item is the boolean result of comparing the thing to that list item.
This step gives you a string like “nnynnn”. -
Using regex, truncate the string to preserve everything up through the first “y” - i.e. lop off everything after the first “y”.
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Count the characters in the truncated string, and voila, you have your index.
Of course, it’s silly to have to jump through such a hoop to get something as simple as a list index, but until Bubble adds the capability, this is one way to go about it.
