Updating a custom state list from text input upon button click

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I have two custom state lists one is populated from a DB(thing) and is used as the items in a drop-down list. The user selects the item in the drop-down as the item to use, the user then enters a quantity to use and clicks a button.

The button action adds the fields from the drop-down list to the second state list and updates the RG.

My problem is how do I get the value of the input quantity to populate a list(QTY) in the second custom state list.

List 1:
Name = ‘test’
Ounces = ‘2’
QTY = 0 or blank

Input box value = 4

List 2:
Name = ‘test’
Ounces = ‘2’
QTY = 4 - this is the value I need to add to list 2.

My current workflow to update list 2 from list 1
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If I understand right what you are trying to do, then the answer is that you can probably not achieve this in Bubble.

There are two constraints in Bubble:

  1. You cannot have duplicate items in a list. So you cannot add an existing item to a list yourself and hence replicate the shopping cart scenario
  2. You cannot have a local copy of “things” and hence create a list of those as custom state.

Solution is that you create a data type which holds the thing that you want to count and the associated count. Now whenever user selects some quantity, you update that entry in the DB.

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My goal is to be able to add the value of an input box to a field in a list.
I relate a list to an array in other languages in other languages I am able to have statements such as
array(1) = ‘this’ - which would update the second item(count starting at 0) in the array
or a multidimensional array such as
array(1,1) = ‘that’ - which would update the second row, second column in the array.

list = item1, item2, item3, item4
RG text1 = list(item1), tesx2 = list(item2), text3 = list(item3), list(item4) = input(value)

I would like to the value of the input box to show in the repeating list item
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