Trying to buid the ability to display a single menu from a list of dishes from multiple resurants

[niallbrady]

Hi

I’m attempting to build a local listings app for my local area stores and resturants to see if I can do something to help them get through the Covid pandemic. A key functionality is a “click and collect” capability primarily targeted at the resturants/coffee shops. I have a data type set up specifially for an individual dish in a menu called “Menu” and a data type for the business called “Store”. My theory was that that a dish would be tagged with a Store Name field identifying the resturant its attached to. When that resturant was selected from the listing it would pull all the dishes marked with its name only, into its menu to be surfaced up to the user.

I’m using a repeating group set up this way

The group containing the dish items is set up this way

The Parent Group already has the specific Store data in it.

When I do this I get all the items with Menu data type and not just the ones for the specific store I am curently viewing. I’ve been going round in circles for days and cant seem to be able to get them filtered down to just the store I have selected to view. Can anyone help point me in the rght direction?

Thanks

Niall

[mikeloc]

Hi there, @niallbrady… I could be off base here, but I’m pretty sure your store constraint isn’t constraining your search at all (which would explain why you are getting all of the items in the Menu data type back) because it’s referencing the wrong thing.

If a user is able to select a restaurant from a listing (presumably from a dropdown), then I would expect the constraint to be something like Store = Restaurant Selection Dropdown's value instead of Parent group's Store. If you had it set up like that, the search would be able to compare the value that the user selected from the dropdown to the value in the Store field for each menu item, and it would return only the relevant items.

Does that makes sense and does it seem like the thing that could be causing your issue?

Best…
Mike

[niallbrady]

Hi @mikeloc

That makes a lot of sense. In this instance however the user selects a store logo (image) via another repeating group containing the listed stores (RepeatingGroup Store). Is there anyway I can us your logic with this scenario?

Thanks

Niall

[mikeloc]

Hi, @niallbrady… maybe set a custom state on the menu repeating group of a specific store when the store’s logo is clicked, and then compare the menu’s Store field to the custom state’s value in the constraint… want to give that a shot?

Best…
Mike

[niallbrady]

Might be a dumb question, but would that require a seperate custom state for every store?

[mikeloc]

Nope… you would just change the custom state each time a new store is clicked. That being said, I don’t know exactly what your UI looks like or what your user experience is, so I’m kind of shooting from the hip here.

[niallbrady]

Thanks mate. I’ll give it a punt.

[niallbrady]

Ok. Ive set a new state on slection of a store which is Menu. As you can see here I’ve changed the constraint from Parent group’s Store to the new states Store.

Still no joy. Could it be that I’ve set up the data type in the state incorrectly? Currently its set to the data type Menu.

Thanks

Niall

[mikeloc]

Is the state associated with the menu’s repeating group, and are you setting the state to the appropriate store via a workflow when a store’s logo is clicked?

I created an example that is the same (I believe) as what you have described for you app, and the constraint is working for me. Here is how the repeating group for menus is set up (with the custom state on the right and the search constraint on the left)…

Is that the way you have it set up?

Best…
Mike

[niallbrady]

Thanks for your help Mike.

I’ve repeated what you’ve done here. Can you show me how you’ve set the state to the appripriate store via a workflow?

Niall

[mikeloc]

Well, mine won’t be exactly like yours because I didn’t replicate your exact app. But, you will want a workflow step when a logo is clicked that uses the Element Actions >> Set State action. In the Set State step, the Element will be your menu’s repeating group, the Custom state is self-explanatory, and the Value in your case will likely be something like Current cell's store. Give that a shot and let me know how it goes, cool?

Best…
Mike

[niallbrady]

Dude. I owe you a beer. Looks like its working.

Thanks for all your help.

Niall

[mikeloc]

No problem at all, Niall… happy to hear it’s working!

Best…
Mike