How to simply set a list of things?

[lorenzo1]

This is the most frustrating unintuitive thing about Bubble. All I want to do is set A) the values of a list of Things to B) the values from another set of Things. Instead, it sets each value of B to the entirety of the A list.

Is there anyway to do this without using listshifter to iterate through one by one?

[cmarchan]

Hello @lorenzo1

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Hello! When you send a list to have something done … that same “something” happens to each item of the entire list. This is why all your proveedores are getting the same “count+1”. If you want something different done to each proveedor, then you need to build logic for this different “something” to happen to each single entry. I suggest you consider using schedule api and not schedule api on a list and set everything up in a somewhat similar fashion to this: [image] [image] [image] [im…

[lorenzo1]

Thanks, good tutorial and I will give it a shot! Are the backend workflows local to each user, or global to all users? I.e. if users simultaneously trigger API workflows, will this cause the backend to queue up multiple jobs, interrupt jobs, or run parallel jobs?

[cmarchan]

@lorenzo1

Backend workflows are just that … server workflows. You pass parameters to them (database objects and/or other non-database values like texts, dates, numbers, files, etc)

If you pass a user or a list of users … each of these will be one of several parameters that are needed for the logic that you build the backend workflow for.

[lorenzo1]

Thanks, I see, so they’re global and I would need some safeguards to say… throttle trigger rate if I expect a lot of visitors.