Setting Conditions Off Seems to Do Nothing

[antony]

Hey everyone…

Just want to be sure I understand this. If I click the “OFF” button above a condition, then I am assuming the condition will no longer operate on that element.

I just turned three conditions off, but wasn’t required to refresh the development page of my app, and the conditions still worked as they did before.

Is this a bug or am I missing something obvious about how this works?

Best wishes,
Antony.

[andrewgassen]

That button just turns the condition on or off for editing purpose, it doesn’t impact anything outside the editor. For example, I have conditions set that say something like, “When this element’s ActiveColor is White, change background color to #FFFFFF.” When I click “on” in the panel, that lets me see what the element would like like if that condition was true.

[luke2]

Andrew is correct in saying its just for internal use, in the Bubble editor, to preview a condition on an element rather than toggling its active or inactive state for live usage. Your not the first to point this out. Thinking Bubble should maybe make it a tad clearer for users unaware of this e.g.

Or perhaps have something in the starter lessons to demo this.

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[antony]

Hey folks, thanks for your responses. Yes, the idea of turning the condition on or off just seems so obvious - that it would either be active or not - so I didn’t even think about it being a preview option. The preview sounds useful though, now I know it is there!