Repeating groups questions

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Hey Guys and Gals,

There’s a few things I don’t understand about repeating groups, if someone can please lend a helping hand, it would be awesome!!

-Question: What is the point of having a repeating group, if you’re setting the settings to display only 1 group and 1 column?

-Situation: Lets say I want 10 different “Data Types” from my database to display in a singular repeating group, pulling information from different “Data Types”, but displaying the information identically. How would I do that? For example:

Column 1 = Data Type1
Column 2 = Data Type2
Column 3 = Data Type3
Column 4 = Data Type4
etc…

So even-though each column looks exactly the same, following the same format when displaying the information, how do I display it all uniformly from different “Data Types”?

Context: The reason it’s pulling from different “Data Types” is because they are radically different in one sense, but identical in others. So the repeating group can follow the same format because it’s only displaying the information that’s common among the different “Data Types”. Then I’m placing a way for users to click a “view” button which will then show them everything that is both common and radically different about the “Data Type”, by taking it to it’s corresponding page with a corresponding format to display the information relevant to just the “Data Type” they’re viewing in a more granular sense.

So another example to tie context into what I’m asking. Say I have a website that allows users to sell radically different things such as dogs, cars and apartments. When a user goes to post their product all three of the products will require similar and radically different information. All of the products will be similar because they all have a price, an image and details. However, since they are so different in other ways, the database will store “Apartment Products” as one “Data Type”, “Dog Products” as one “Data Type” and “Car Products” as another “Data Type”

So say that someone comes onto the page to buy a product. Well when they go to the products page I want them to see all the dogs, cars and apartments for sale, all on a single product page, which displays everything in columns showing what they all have in common(price, image, details), but then when they click “view product” they see the product they selected in the corresponding format that allows for all the information about that product to be shown. Clicking “view product” goes granular.

[1st repeat when displaying products]
Column 1 = Apartments
Column 2 = Cars
Column 3 = Dogs
etc.
[2nd repeat when displaying products]
Column 1 = Apartments
Column 2 = Cars
Column 3 = Dogs
etc.
[3rd repeat when displaying products]
Column 1 = Apartments
Column 2 = Cars
Column 3 = Dogs
etc.

Is there anyway to display it in this manner in a repeating group?

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The only thing I can think of is to do a single column repeating group for each data type and then somehow repeat that. So like this:

Column 1 = Apartments <------It’s own 1 column repeating group
Column 2 = Cars <------------It’s own 1 column repeating group
Column 3 = Dogs <-------------------It’s own 1 column repeating group

However, I’m not sure how I’d be able to repeat all of those single reaping groups again and again to display every single product.

Any thoughts, anyone?

OR if what I’m trying to do isn’t possible with bubble, please let me know…

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What is the point of having a repeating group, if you’re setting the settings to display only 1 group and 1 column?

I am sure there are a few reasons people do this, but the main reason I do is for presentation purposes, when you combine it with “full list”. So if you have several groups of information on your page, and you want them spaced equally, then by setting the initial size of the RG to “1” means that bubble will expand the space when there are more. Otherwise, if you set it to “5” and there is only 1 entry, it will leave space for the other 4.

Lets say I want 10 different “Data Types” from my database to display in a singular repeating group, pulling information from different “Data Types”,

Yes, it is possible, but will take a little bit of work. You need to pull back the unique ids of each of your things, and then display them in their own group if they are found.

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Thanks for responding. I’m not sure if what you’re recommending solves my issue. When it comes to repeating groups I understand how to make the information populate. However, the issue I’m having is in making these repeating groups lay out each “Data Type” in a specific way.

I want them to display all 10 data types in an alternating manner.

So, I know how to make them display in the following manner:

Data Type #1
Data Type #1 <-----when someone adds another of that data type
Data Type #2
Data Type #2 <-----when someone adds another of that data type
Data Type #3
Data Type #3 <-----when someone adds another of that data type
etc.

However I want to make them display in the following manner instead:

Data Type #1
Data Type #2
Data Type #3
Data Type #1 <-----when someone adds another of that data type
Data Type #2 <-----when someone adds another of that data type
Data Type #3 <-----when someone adds another of that data type
Data Type #1 <-----when someone adds another of that data type
Data Type #2 <-----when someone adds another of that data type
Data Type #3 <-----when someone adds another of that data type

See what I mean? I want it to alternate data types within a repeating group format, instead of each datatype being lumped with one another.

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