So I am trying to have a value of a dropdown on a different page be determined by which icon I choose on another page. How can I do this.
Page 1: Icon A = Page 2: Dropdown 2
I don’t know how I can set specific things in a different page based on the workflow of a current page, before the user is sent to the other page. Any help would be appreciated.
You can …
Send it via a parameter, so when you do the redirect to the new page.
Update something on the current user.
Update something on the thing you are looking for.
Having it as a parameter could work well.
Thanks Nigel. When I try to send a parameter it asks for a key? I guess I am in an area I don’t yet know anything about.
Yeah, the “key” is the just the name of the parameter you are sending, it can be anything you like but worth giving it a meaningful name. Then you pass this to the page, and pull it back as a page parameter.
Oh that is cool. So how do you set up a specific page state as a parameter to begin with?
Use a custom state, so when an Icon is clicked you set the state on the page to a text value, then pass this.
Cool Thanks Nigel
Hi @NigelG,
Could you please explain me how to pull the data I sent?
When a button is clicked, I want to go to another page and show a specific tab on this page (the landing page is already organized in tabs via states…1,2,3 etc).
So I’m trying to “when button is clicked”—> “go to page” with “send more parameters to the page” (like Key “statesent=5”)
then how do I use it on the landing page?
thanks!
Have a look at my parameter passing demo, it sends a number via a parameter, this is recevied by the target page, arrives as a text value, so gets read, passed through another control and pops out again as a number type.
bottom of the the index page at:
https://dave-auld-demo-stuff.bubbleapps.io/
or in the editor:
You use the Get from URL to read the value and then you can do what you want with them
Hi @DaveA,
I don’t Understand why now it is working (setting correctly the state on landing page) but I get this error to fix:
The value passed is 5, that is not text (and anyway it is read correctly by the workflow)
how do I convert it to number before passing to Workflow “set state”?
Do I have to pass it to a numeric input (maybe invisible) and then read again?
Thanks!
Yes, you can either set a hidden numeric input to default to the “text” number (you are right, but it isn’t a true number when passed in the url it is text) from the parameter.
Or you can use an API I created.
https://buildingonbubble.com/block/convert-text-to-a-number-1473139645028x680387991794876400
So just pass the text to this API in string. And the result will be a numeric.
https://webtask.it.auth0.com/api/run/wt-nigel_godfrey-gmail_com-0/parseint?string=0123.4
Might see if I can make this into a Plugin.
