Upgraded ':Formatted as'? This is so awesome!

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When did they make the operator so awesome? This makes so many many expressions way easier to build and manage!

This is effectively if/else branching within expressions.

This makes writing guard conditions so easy. A guard condition is one that activates a check if needed but bypasses if not. Hence returns TRUE if not enabled.

I use these a lot to reduce conditional complexity. Paired with Global Expressions, this can in theory increase performance for me since Global Expressions are more performant versus duplicating complex expressions.

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Wait, did they finally allow the yes or no result to be a data type and not just text? If so, sounds like they are finally listening.

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Yep, it supports data types as results.

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IMO this is bigger or same as branching

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Not to be overdramatic but this is life changing

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Good to see them shipping updates like this lately! They also added this:

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Thanks for sharing - this one’s amazing and unblocks so many use-cases

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you all missed the equally important one

:converted to date

no longer need to go through plugin or API connector to convert a value to a Bubble date. it’ll parse it best effort (like the API Connector) into a Bubble date!

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Haha I was about to share it :eyes:

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RIP formatted as text: converted to number and other such weird workarounds

Not sure who is ghostwriting these changes but keep it up

It’s like every week is a “Bubble boost” now

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Pro tip, if you write your feature request or bug report as a Claude prompt, it’s more likely to get done

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lmfaooo

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I think they also finally got to the convert to list request as well, although not formatted using LLM back in June of 2023 when I requested it but, maybe that is why there was such a lag time

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Yeah, this has been out a few weeks now

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Now when can we get the ability to change a data field from a single entry to a list and vice versa :thinking:

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make every field a list always so you can change your mind in future without having to refactor

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Tell that to my repeating group filters :sweat_smile:

Edit: do you actually do that?

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Yesterday I came across this completely by accident and I was like: :exploding_head:

I honestly think updates like this shouldn’t go unnoticed. Not only does this show that they’re committed to these quality-of-life improvements, but it also opens up a ton of new possibilities for us.

@fede.bubble , please, I think I speak for everyone here… make a forum post announcing this kind of stuff!! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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:smiley: :+1:

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yeah this time it was unfortunate timing that this particular operator went live just after we did the monthly community update, so it wasn’t included there