Save App Text to database or in option set

Idea
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Saving app text to database or in option set would make things a lot easier when building multilingual apps.

Example: Option Set with navigation elements. Now I have a lot of conditionals, with that functionality i could always display the correct language.

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Both could work, but have drawbacks (DBs differ in different environments; option sets must be loaded first, which can slow performance if large), but Bubble addressed your issue with languages for app-texts.

3

Why not just use… app texts?

4

yup. correct anchor text but wrong link…

5

I was thinking of a navigation system which uses option sets.

Example:

Option 1: Home
Option 2: Pricing
Option 3: Features

All of them with the following values:

  • Display, -Emoji, -Something

Now I have a RG with my navigation and Buttons have the text value Display.

For this use case i would have to add a conditional: If current cell is option 1 → display app text (option 1)

My suggestion would be to have a field not called text, called app text, to save a multilingual text here.

My example is very easy, reality is much more complex, that’s why I was suggesting this feature.

I would get rid of all the conditionals and could do a lot of things like custom order of navigation, breadcrumbs… way easier than now.

Maybe its not for everyone, and of course I could use some condtionals here. :slight_smile:

6

This exists in the link both of us sent you…

7

of course that exists and I want to save this value in an option set or the database, not just one text.

8

The use cases seem pretty narrow :man_shrugging:

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You could:

  • Create an option set which has text, type (another option set) and language attributes. One option might be

  • text - Click to login

  • type - Login button

  • language - en_us

Then, display all options:filtered (= Login button and language = Current user’s language.):first item is empty:formatted as text. If yes, display a fallback text (probably English), if no, show the option’s text. Nothing required in the conditional tab.

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Thats what I am using sometimes and which lead to the idea to have the option to save the whole app text to a field. Thanks anyways!

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To recap your idea: create an inefficient workaround instead of using any of the existing cleaner methods?

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I would describe it the other way round. Create an easy, (efficient) method and not using workarounds to make the app multilingual.

Would also give more options for dropdowns.

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Now I’m having to deal with one of the narrow use cases I would like this feature :sweat_smile:

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I was already thinking that I am the only one who needs this feature. :grinning:

Whats your use case now?

In the meantime I needed it again for:

  • custom navigation
  • dropdowns
  • multi select dropdowns
  • sorting values
  • language selection

and I guess some more…