Storing changes to current user in DB failed

[peanutbutter]

Hi Bubblers, I would like some advice or insights from you on this one. So this is the signup page of my app for user:

After the email signup, they will be redirected to my multi-step onboarding process (on a seperate page) where they will go through some questions and fill in some information. Each input will be stored temporarily into a custum state:

At the end of the onboarding step there’s a button like this to push all the date to database:

It all seems to work on the page and in the debugger, but I don’t see the information being added to the database:

Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

*update: I tried to enter the onboarding process from the database. I clicked “running as the newly signed up user,” and the data was successfully stored this time. So, the break is happening between the signup page and the onboarding page I guess. How to make the onboarding page recognizes the user after they sign up with their email and password on the prior signup page?

[hergin]

Hey @peanutbutter

You should use make changes to current user action instead of make changes to a thing, if you want to update user’s fields.

[peanutbutter]

Hi @hergin , Thank you for the tip! It worked! Also what’s the difference between the two?

[hergin]

User is most of the time a special thing. I am sure updating its fields is done in a more secure way or something. In theory, it should work, yes.

[peanutbutter]

Hi @hergin , it did work for the first two times after I made the change to my workflow. Now it’s weirly not working anymore, could you take a look at what might go wrong here?

Update: Now it works again and I figured out that it would only work when I test it out in incognito mode.

[hergin]

It updates the current user. If there is no user, or if the current user is not the one you expect, it might not work