Multiline input not displaying initial content correctly

Bugs
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I have a multi-line input box (call this MB1) with a limit on the # of characters (say 100)

The text from this input is stored in a database field A (call this DBA)

Initial content for MB1 is set to DBA

I have 2 other multi-line inputs (Call these MB2) for users to add text data to field A, action for the submit button will check to ensure the number of characters currently in field A + number of characters from MB2 is <= 100.

A popup dialog box is displayed if the # of characters is > 100 to inform the user that they’ve exceed the maximum # of characters and they need to remove some before adding more

I have a tab interface using buttons, where either MB1 or MB2 is displayed on the page, when one is displayed / active, the other is hidden

Workflow for issue

  • I submit data from MB2
  • I see that the data from MB2 is correctly added into database field A
  • But when click the button to have MB1 displayed, it does not auto refresh and display the newly added data from MB2
  • It only displays the new data if I manually refresh the page
  • Since initial content for MB1 is set to DBA, I would expect every time MB1 is hidden and then displayed, it will refresh with data from DBA
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You are not wrong to expect that. I think every developer does, except for the engineers who built the bubble multiline input element. So because of that, we need to put the multiline input element into a group and then use the action to reset group data which will refresh the multiline input element to update itself.

I believe the issue a simple fix to make the code for the multiline input element to update when the data is updated, but I don’t think Bubble has plans to do it as this issue has existed since multiline input element introduced.

And I do not think (I might be wrong, my memory hardly serves its purpose) that using the actions of reset input works for multiline input element.

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Thank you! Resetting the parent group did the trick, and you’re correct, I tried reset input and that didn’t work.

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