So, since the change in pricing model, and the introduction of WUs, I’ve spent a LOT of time (probably way more than it’s worth) testing many, many things in Bubble to establish the most WU efficient ways of doing standard (and not so standard) things, especially in relation to loading related data …

[image] ntabs: My question is will the actions wait for the searches to finish and output a yes or no before triggering each custom event? Custom events run in sequence, always, I believe. That means if you have Trigger Custom Event 1 followed by Trigger Custom Event 2, Custom Event 2 will al…

Thanks! greatly appreciate the swift reply @georgecollier :pray:

[image] ntabs: Hi @adamhholmes did you hear back from Bubble’s support team yet? Nope… heard nothing about this since June, and the issue still exists, so I can’t see it changing any time soon.

That is my understanding as well. There was a thread on order of operations some place in the forum where this was confirmed by Bubble.

Do you know if it waits for the custom event to complete, or does it wait for all the actions to run? Like if the former is true it is safe to Create a thing as the last step inside the Custom Event 1, then in Custom Event 2 search for the thing.

[image] tylerboodman: Do you know if it waits for the custom event to complete, or does it wait for all the actions to run? What’s the difference? Surely a custom event is only complete when all actions inside the custom event have completed. That’s what I’ve always thought (maybe I just have…

Notwithstanding why one would want to search a recently created item which can be “grabbed” via “result of step X” … and if the created object is very light (or you can first create it with no data inside it) you should be ok by searching for it in a subsequent custom event. To answer your question…

Hi there, do you have tips on how to search elements that uses “search: count is 0” using the App Search Tool?

Anyone? Tips for finding using app search tool?

No it seems the app search tool can only find “Do a search for” but not a specific expression like you’re trying to do…

Search: count is 0? Or Search:first item is empty?

Tips

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Did this ever get fixed?

This is being actively discussed in the forum and Twitter.

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Search: count is 0? Or Search:first item is empty?

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