I’m Lindsay, a product manager at Bubble, here with another update on the redesigned property editor. We appreciate all the feedback you’ve continued to share and are excited to share what we’ve shipped this sprint!
UX and UI improvements
Constraints and Sort by are back inline. We removed the constraints and Sort by popovers so you can edit everything directly in place.
Constraints and Sort by are more user-friendly. We’ve added auto-focus, so you can start typing right away without clicking into the field, operator, or value. You can now also change a constraint’s field or operator without deleting and recreating the constraint. And the new drag-and-drop behavior introduced in a previous update remains. You’ll see these improvements in places like Do a search for, :filtered, and :sorted.
Inputs that allow dynamic data will now be full-width. Previously, many inputs were crammed to the right, making long expressions hard to read. We fixed that by making them stacked and full-width.
Custom states are back inline. We removed the popover for setting a custom state so you can edit it directly in the property editor, reducing clicks, mouse, and eye movement.
The icon popover will no longer close when changing icon libraries
Nested popovers will no longer randomly snap to the top left corner rather than being anchored to their parent
Deleted fields will no longer be added when selecting “add all fields”
You can now set a background color to ‘none’ in the styles tab conditional menu (and we’re currently adding this back for element conditionals)
Toggling “Visible on page load” property will remain as you initially set it when updating its value in conditionals
Rich text editor properly syncs with field values like in the Send Email action
The issue checker will no longer incorrectly flag a ‘type required’ error in the choice popover
Privacy rule expression text will no longer appear white and low-contrast with the new PE enabled
Clicking into dynamic data will no longer close the background popover ‘gradient’ tab or ‘background’ tab
Clicking into dynamic data will no longer close the border style color in the conditionals tab
Clicking a color variable will no longer close the individual borders popover in the styles tab
The “Appearance” section will always show for the reveal element of the “Reveal & Hide Password” plugin
The “Size” section will always appear in the Visual tab for user-built plugins
Row gap can now be removed as a conditional property
The alignment property is now changeable in the conditional tab
The “MISSING” conditional property from an AI generation error can now be removed
Conditionally defining static images will no longer produce a rendering error
Picture uploaders now support the ability to add dynamic data for its initial content
Coming soon
We’re removing the dynamic expression popover, putting workflow fields back inline, and improving the process of adding dynamic data (no more tiny plus icon).
Thank you again for the feedback and please keep sharing! I’ll be back with another update soon!
That button is a shortcut to add all the states as dropdowns so you can set values for many of them at once, instead of having to click the plus icon for each one you want to change. It’s not intended to create many custom states, but to set many state values based on the workflow goals (an accelerator).
No, that’s very strange… sorry about that. DM me your email and I can add you back!
I don’t know what you all did recently but privacy rule expressions using parentheses no longer get highlighted appropriately. This old “white low-contrast” highlight is exactly what I describe here:
Whatever change you made stopped this feature from working properly. Please fix this as it can inadvertently lead to severe security issues with users’ apps.
Small bug here. It looks like this input field for an Alert should either not show up by default or the toggle ‘change the alert message’ should be toggled to on by default. It doesn’t seem to be consistent when it first shows up. Obviously there is a work around, but just thought I would point it out.
Hey, I’m sorry but our work was not related to that. The text was appearing white on a white background so we just changed the text color, and this was only occurring when the new PE was enabled.
Thanks for pointing out! There are a couple error states we missed highlighting in red or don’t open properly. Adding this to the list.
I also really enjoy being able to add a new field in a workflow but it doesn’t seem like we can do that anymore. You have to go to the database to do that now.
Side note:
You guys should also be counting every time we turn of the new editor. Might give you a good indication on how many bugs are left if we have to turn it on and off each time to fix and issue.
Also, If you are counting how many apps actually have this on, you will have a very skewed number since I have 200+ apps but I don’t open all of them anymore, some are just old projects or test projects that the new editor might be enabled on but I’m not even using it there.
The new editor was being so slow & sluggish for me this morning I reverted back to the old one. However I then noticed this update was released so switched back, and the sluggishness has fixed.
So, if anyone is finding the property editor extremely slow and laggy, try reverting back to the old one and then back to the new one again… should fix it.
Is it actually missing (issue checker shows a problem) or just visually missing? If the former, this is so dangerous, imagine switching to the new editor and your app randomly stops working.
