I want to click a button so that all the sub-types (i.e. in the case of ‘Cars’, this would mean Acura, Buick, Ford) into the Bubble DB – each item with its own entry. I DON’T want Acura, Buick, Ford, to appear on some list; I need them to appear in the DB as separate items, item#1 = Acura, item#2 - Buick, etc.
How do I do that?
I recognize that this is a question that has been asked in many different forms - usually in regard to enabling ‘loops’ – but I have not seen any solutions yet.
all I want to do is ‘count’ how many items are on the list and have the workflow run that many times, in relation to each consecutive item. Yes, that could be a loop but with constraints, or it could be a dynamic input [how many times do you want to run this] and force that number to be based on something in the app (like an RG) to make it less open to abuse.
Or, better yet - why not allow a choice in the editor when dealing with multiple items – a choice to deal with the items as a ‘list’, or as ‘separate items’? This would solve SOOOO many problems. What if you let people do this:
But instead of making people select item #1, item #2, item #3, as my workflow does… for all possible items… let people check a box that said, “DO THIS FOR ALL ITEMS”.
Doing things on a list can take the servers down if users do something fishy (which happens often…). We have an action that has a delay between each entry that protects us for this, you can use it, but it won’t be immediate.
That’s great, and thanks for replying quickly. But I don’t think it addresses my problem. My problem is not that I want to use delays, my problem is that I need to get multiple items from an RG into a DB as separate items and not as a list.
Back to the main problem I have – what if you let us select ‘do this for all items’ but forced us to choose a delay between items? Example: Press Button --> Create a New Order —> product-regs=item [Checkbox: SELECT ALL ITEMS ON LIST] WITH X SECOND DELAY (SET TO 1 SECOND DEFAULT)].
Just make Bubblers pick a delay and set the default to 1 second (and let them change it to more if they want).
PS - I am open to other solutions. I just can’t figure out how to do this in a way that is not super-hacky - so hacky it isn’t viable. I notice there are lots of people trying (and failing) to do the same thing in the forum - maybe we can come up with a solution?
Ok - would be really useful if we could Create New Thing for each item in an RG en masse without using the API so perhaps you will consider enabling that.
