Making change to an option set?

[clement4]

Hi Bubblers,

Trying to do something and can’t figure out a right way to do it.

Basically, i want an input in my “Settings” page where the value of the input is known globally by the app.

Lets say this input is a number and this number is used in an other page to calculate employees salaries and other things.

I want the users to be able to change the value of the input, and this value to dynamically be used somewhere else.

The easiest way would be having a “make change to an option set” but Bubble does not let us do this.

I’ve seen some post like the following
This post

But i don’t quite understand the right way to do it.

Anyone that can help?

Cheers!

[Zeroic]

Yeah, you can’t modify Option Sets. The best way for your use-case would have a Settings table and link that to the User/Company table. This Settings table can have the attributes necessary to store the variables you have in mind

[1theritzy]

How about this. Instead of an option make it a user field. When a user makes a change you can use a workflow to modify every user’s field to the same. Does that help?

To do that you need to update the privacy on that field so all users can access other users’ field.

[code-escapee]

No that doesn’t help and would be a very not good way of doing it (and very expensive).

@clement4 do what @Zeroic reccomended above

[1theritzy]

What is the expense?

[code-escapee]

Searching things and updating things takes up WU. That’s besides the potential timeouts and the terrible practices which are the primary issues

[1theritzy]

What are the potential timeouts and terrible practices?

Thanks much!