My Idea Took a Detour, and Bubble Sent It to the Wrong Address 🤷‍♂️

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Hey Bubble friends,

So, I pitched this idea (or so I thought):
“Let me search a table with 20 fields but only return 2 fields as results to save time and improve performance. Simple, right?”

But instead of saying, “Wow, great idea!” Bubble replied with, “You can use a search filter to choose which fields to return!”

Now, I’m sitting here wondering if they read my description or just skimmed it like it was the terms and conditions on a free app. Filters are great and all, but that’s not what I meant! I’m talking about limiting the actual fields retrieved, not filtering results after fetching all 20 fields.

So here’s the situation:

  • My idea: “Can I just get two fields back instead of the whole table?”
  • Bubble’s response: “Have you tried using filters?”
  • Me: facepalm :man_facepalming:

Do I need to write “Please read the full description” in bold next time? :sweat_smile: Help me out, folks—my idea deserves better!

Cheers,
A hopeful search optimizer

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I’ve asked for this too. Would be dope.

The only way to accomplish this at this time is using privacy rules or a satellite table

ORRR

Just scrap bubble as a backend and use xano or Supabase

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People have been asking this for the whole 6+ years I’ve been using Bubble…

And aside from mentioning it a few times, I’ve never seen Bubble make any real suggestion it’s something they’re planning to implement.

This is one of the top 3 MAJOR Bubble limitations in my view and is the primary reason why Bubble is so inefficient when it comes to data loading.

There are some ways you can use privacy rules to achieve this kind of thing but it’s needlessly complicated and should be a standard feature.

So I wouldn’t hold your breath.

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The thing is, all that extra workload we face because of this limitation doesn’t just cost us time—it also ends up costing Bubble itself. Why? Because more data loading = more processing = more strain on Bubble’s servers = more :money_mouth_face: $ for infrastructure.

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Won’t happen anytime soon (see 7m15s).

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Josh stated it was on their list…unfortunately, it seems to be something that tends to go on the list and then taken off and then put on again. I wouldn’t expect them to do this anytime soon, if every at this point since it has been more than 1.5 years since Josh said it was on the list.

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