Hi all, need some help here.
I just need to convert a date range (user input), into a list of dates so that I can run that list of dates through an API workflow.
I’ve found no solution to this forums or plugins. The plug-ins recommended just don’t seem to have clear documentation, or have so much functionality that it would take days to watch each hour-length youtube video!
I’d appreciate help on this - It’s a 2 minute task that’s taking me hours now.
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I just built this ugly but functional page:
I also built a dummy table to store the dates I created.
The user will select the start and stop date. The RG at the bottom will display the dates created.
The “populate” button does this:
This is what the API looks like:
This is what Step 1 does:
This is what step 2 does:
I run this with the dates 8/15 and 8/25 and I get these rows:
Hope this helps to at least get the dates generated.
I think this is unnecessarily WU intensive and slow - custom event solution is much faster if you need to generate a list of dates in front end to pass to backend, which I think is what OP is trying to do. It might be appropriate in the backend though if required.
Hi there!
This definitely seems like the solution. I set up my workflow in the same way as yours but it seems to just loop creating the same date?
Step 1:
Last step (sends back to step 1 to create next date)
workflow:
output (now stopped as it just seems to keep looping the same info)
The date item no. should increase, but it loops on that same number ?
The schedule snapshot you show has the API event create_event_dates_copy.
But your screenshot of the API you are using recursively looks like it’s called create_event_dates_LIST.
Are you calling the right API event? Or am I reading something wrong?
Hey!
Sometimes Bubble uses the name in the header (it has ‘copy’ in it but it’s cut off), and sometimes Bubble uses the API worflow name ( the first item not in the header).
So it wasn’t that, that’s just naming issues, but I’ll double check!
HOWEVER!
I managed to get this working using some of your methodology so THANK YOU. the crux of it was that I didn’t know there was a simple adding (days) function to just write your own list using some logic. Big thanks on that!
