Repeating Group configured correctly, but Text element won't recognize Current Cell's data

[roqmein3]

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Hi Bubble Community,

I’m a beginner and I’ve been trying to solve this problem for the last three days without success. I would really appreciate some help.

What I’m building

I’m building a page called Developers that displays verified redevelopment opportunities.

The page contains:

• Search by City

• Search by Locality

• Search by Society Name

• A Repeating Group that should display matching RedevelopmentOpportunity records.

My Repeating Group configuration

Type of content

RedevelopmentOpportunity

Data source

Search for RedevelopmentOpportunities

From everything I’ve checked, this part appears to be configured correctly.

The problem

Inside the Repeating Group I added a Text element.

Normally, I expected Bubble to let me choose something like:

Current cell's RedevelopmentOpportunity
    → Society Name

or

Current cell's RedevelopmentOpportunity
    → City

However, Bubble never gives me that option.

Instead, whenever I click Insert Dynamic Data, I only see the generic menu:

• Current User

• Do a Search For

• Get an Option

• Arbitrary Text

• Elements

• etc.

If I select the Repeating Group from Elements, it keeps showing properties of the Repeating Group itself instead of the Current Cell’s thing.

So I cannot bind the Text element to the data in each row.

What I’ve already tried

• Deleted and recreated the Text element.

• Confirmed that the Text element is inside the Repeating Group.

• Confirmed that the Repeating Group Type of Content is RedevelopmentOpportunity.

• Confirmed that the Data Source is Search for RedevelopmentOpportunities.

• Switched from Bubble’s new Property Editor back to the classic Property Editor.

• Recreated the Text element again.

• Checked multiple screenshots with another helper.

Despite all this, the Text element still does not expose the Current Cell’s data.

My questions

1. Is my Text element actually inside the Repeating Group?

2. Is there something wrong with my layout hierarchy?

3. Could this be an editor issue?

4. Is there anything obvious that I’m missing?

I’ve attached screenshots showing:

• Repeating Group settings

• Data Source

• Element Tree

• Dynamic Data menu

If someone is willing to help, I’d really appreciate it.

If needed, I’m happy to continue through private messages rather than posting my application’s details publicly.

Thank you very much.

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Attach these screenshots

Attach these in this order:

1. The screenshot showing the Repeating Group settings (Type of Content and Data Source).

2. The screenshot showing the Dynamic Data dropdown.

3. The Element Tree on the left.

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One final note

I have one small correction to my earlier diagnosis. Looking back over everything you shared, I can’t confidently conclude that Bubble itself is malfunctioning. It’s possible there’s a layout or nesting issue that isn’t obvious from the screenshots alone. That’s exactly the kind of thing experienced Bubble developers on the forum are very good at spotting.

I think this forum post gives them all the information they need without exposing your application’s core idea or business logic. I would expect you’ll get a useful response from the community fairly quickly.

Additional information:

• Bubble version: Classic Property Editor (I switched back from the new Property Editor during troubleshooting).
• Repeating Group Type of Content = RedevelopmentOpportunity.
• Data Source = Search for RedevelopmentOpportunities.
• The issue occurs when I try to bind a Text element inside the Repeating Group. Instead of seeing Current Cell’s RedevelopmentOpportunity, I only get generic dynamic data options or the Repeating Group’s properties.

[Sam_R]

The text element that you have shown in the screenshot is not inside the repeating group.

[geesonofgee]

From your element tree it appears that the Text element is not in inside the repeating group, it’s independent of the RG.

How did I know?

The little drop-down icon beside the RG is not pointing downwards and the text element is showing regardless

Try having it in the RG and try again

[geesonofgee]

I I think using your own wordings will make you understand better, so checkout the layout in the screenshot, I used the same naming you used.

I hope this helps

[roqmein3]

Yes. These are the correct screenshots. Thank you.

I also checked them carefully, and they confirm something important:

• Your Repeating Group is searching for RedevelopmentOpportunity.

• Your database does contain one record (GREEN PARK).

• The text inside the Repeating Group is not recognizing the Current cell’s data (it’s red), which is exactly the issue.

This is enough evidence for Bubble experts to investigate.

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Hi everyone,

I’m stuck on an issue that I’ve been trying to solve for several days.

I have a page called developers.

My Repeating Group is configured as follows:

• Type of content: RedevelopmentOpportunity

• Data source: Search for RedevelopmentOpportunities

The database definitely contains data. I’ve attached a screenshot showing a record (GREEN PARK, Mumbai, Andheri West).

However, inside the Repeating Group, the Text element refuses to recognize the current cell’s data. The expression remains red (see attached screenshot), so I cannot display fields like:

• Current cell’s RedevelopmentOpportunity’s SocietyName

• City

• Locality

• etc.

The Repeating Group is configured correctly, the database has data, but Bubble does not seem to recognize the cell’s thing.

Could someone please look at the attached screenshots and tell me what I may be missing?

Screenshots attached:

1. Repeating Group settings

2. Text element showing the red expression

3. Database containing the record

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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[roqmein3]

Thank you for your replies. I understand that the Text element may not actually be inside the Repeating Group cell.

I am a complete Bubble beginner and I am still unable to correct the nesting. Could someone please explain the exact steps in the current Bubble editor to move or recreate the Text element properly inside the first Repeating Group cell?

Should I delete the existing Text element, select the Repeating Group, and then create a new Text element inside its first cell? Please guide me click by click if possible. Thank you.

[Sam_R]

Here you go:

Click + hold the text element and drag it inside the repeating group in the element’s tree as shown in the video.

[roqmein3]

Hello, thank you again for your help.

I deleted the old repeating group and rebuilt it completely from scratch. The new repeating group is now configured as follows:

Type of content: RedevelopmentOpportunity
Data source: Search for RedevelopmentOpportunities

Constraints:
City contains Input Search by City’s value
Locality contains Input Search by Locality’s value
SocietyName contains Input Search by Society Name’s value

Bubble shows 0 issues. The repeating group is visible in the editor and has a fixed size, but nothing appears in Preview because there is currently no text element inside the repeating-group cell.

This is the same stage where I previously became stuck: when adding text inside the first cell, Bubble did not provide the expected “Current cell’s RedevelopmentOpportunity” field options and instead showed confusing options such as Current cell’s index / Click / More.

Before I repeat the same process again, could someone please show me, using the current Bubble editor interface, the exact clicks required to add a text element inside the first repeating-group cell and display:

Current cell’s RedevelopmentOpportunity’s SocietyName

Please note that I am using the latest Bubble Engine version 33. A screenshot or short screen recording using the current editor would be greatly appreciated.