Hi,
I have a repeating group that displays posts in a social media feed. I want to filter it by a list of Buddy’s (friends) and am having limited success.
The repeating group works as it should until I add the filter. The filter and data source are blue and no issues are flagged so feels like it should work.
When I run the RG with the filter it only displays the posts from Renegade. It doesn’t matter where in the list Renegade is or how many others are listed, it only shows posts from this one user.
I’ve tried using other types of lists, Type User and a list of users or email addresses or other user attributes. All of these result in an empty repeating group.
In this case, you’re comparing a list of Users with a list of texts, which is why you’re getting that error.
But I’d like to ask—why are you storing a list of texts in your database instead of a list of Users? Is there a specific reason for that?
If not, I strongly recommend working with the actual User data type. For example, instead of having a field like Post Creator Username (as text), you can simply use Bubble’s built-in Creator field, which is already of type User.
That way, your search would look something like this:
Search for Posts > Creator is in Current User’s Buddy List (list of Users)
However, if you do have a specific reason for using a list of texts, let me know—I can help you get it working that way too. I just believe using the correct data types is the more efficient and scalable approach.
Hi,
no specific reason, just new at this and trying to figure it out. I have a list of users in my User data type as well. When I use that the repeating group returns no data.
Do you have any constrains in the Do a a search for?
I can see you are using filtered, but you can set all the constrains in the Search the remove the filtered. Look if you don’t have any hidden constrains in there.
