I am building a plugin that Uses a client side action to call Firebase and publish data as a custom bubble thing and access it as any other element state
But
I can’t figure out how to use that value in a workflow like with server side actions. With those you can return {“stateName”, value} and use the result in the next step in a workflow.
Is this possible for client side actions?
I am also interested to know if it is possible or not. If yes, how?
@vini_brito do you know if this is possible?
Hi! Thanks for the mention 
Nope, not with client side actions, I already asked Bubble team for that and many other things too, they’re all backlogged but no confirmation on if and when this and other features would be implemented.
A sure fire way to use data from client side actions is to publish to a custom state in the plugin element and then immediately after it trigger a custom event from the plugin element.
Then the workflow continues under the plugin event.
An example of the code would be:
instance.publishState("item_clicked", args.item.text)
instance.triggerEvent("item_selected")
There are more hackish ways if needed, but this is the main method and usually is the best approach.
Cheers Vini
How is this still not done?
This is the way still, unfortunately. Now that you know, build!