Why can I make change to a thing of type "get from url" but have to type it elsewhere because it's not available?

[yannandco]

Every time I want to make change to a thing like this:

I have to type it here:

Because here it’s not available:

I’ve been using this workaround for month and finally decided to write a little post about it

Have a good day people

[Jici]

You should report this to Bubble support.
I agree that sometimes, you need to find workaround like this because the option is not available where it should be (and in most case, this is because filtered it out because this is not a type “thing” (get data from url doesn’t have a type at the moment you select it)…

[boston85719]

There are other areas with similar annoyances…best bet is to put up an idea on ideaboard, share the link on forum so others could find it easily and potentially upvote it…then maybe, if there are boosts days again, we’d get the functionality implemented again (this particular issue of get data from URL was not always an issue - it started within the past 18 months I believe).

[yannandco]

thanks. Would be nice to know what other workarounds people are using. Anyone?

[dev.mfaria]

The case here is because the result of the expression “Get c from page URL” is a text.

The expression is available in the conditional field because you can make a conditional expression based on a text.

The expression is not available in the make changes to a thing field because the text obtained from the expression is not a thing in the database.

What you can do in this field is to perform a “do a search for”, using the text obtained from “Get c from page URL” as a filter. This way, you are actually making a change to a database record.

[Jici]

If the c in the url is a unique id of a thing, this can be set as a thing type and you don’t need to do a search for. The url parameters can be a thing (a lot of type) not just a text.