Hey there! Im quite new to bubble and really happy so far with everything you can do with it. Im building my first product and have a question regarding search-functionality. Im building a kind of social media app where people can create posts and also search through posts. Now I finished the searc…

Yes. But kinda no in practice. Back end workflows run entirely separately from your front end. So you would have to have something in the front end that notified the user when the search was done. Not impossible of course. You can however use back end workflows to ensure you data is easier to sea…

Thank you @NigelG for your reply! So If we stick to my example with the 100k posts does this mean my users would have to wait a long time to get their search results? :frowning:

I might be missing out but how do you search something in the backend workflows and display it back in the frontend? Sure, we could do search actions in the backend but we don’t have the ability or actions that enables us to send data from backend to frontend, right? Off the top of my head, the on…

[image] c.wittelsberger: So If we stick to my example with the 100k posts does this mean my users would have to wait a long time to get their search results? Impossible to say. Depends on your search. If you can narrow it down with server side constraints (so directly in the search) then no. …

[image] ntabs: the only way to send data from backend workflows to frontend is to use APIs You can set a trigger on the page to wait for something to be populated by the backend. I use then when the user is waiting for a pdf / CSV table to be populated. Which is a fairly common use case. Not…

[image] c.wittelsberger: But thinking of how there could be potential 100k posts to search through Also check out how FB and Twitter do this and copy it. The first level search is usually ‘recent’ items and quicker. So you could structure your database around something like this.

I made a post about exactly this not too long ago: [image] Result Of Backend Workflow & Return Data From API fix Tips I’ve struggled with this for quite some time since there didn’t seem to be any obvious way to grab the result of a scheduled backend workflow on a page, so…

just a note that it is a typical beginner mistake to ensure you build everything to scale already now. you will not. your database will change over time your app idea will change. search should be handled when several users all complain search is slow not after. as an fyi, many people eventuall…

Unfortunatly for my app I needed the not basic search option. Regarding the point you make about changing the database in a way that I dont need advanced searches I have a question to an example: Like mentioned before I got Posts and all Posts can have 3 different Categories. Currently I made a op…

check this thread here [image] List A contains at least 1 of List B Question I find it helpful to think of the desired behavior from the end user’s perspective. Typically, the end user will want to do one of the following in a given search… Find items which contain all o…

Should search be handled in backend workflows?

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Should search be handled in backend workflows?

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