Why does Bubble restrict DO A SEARCH FOR constraints?

[boston85719]

This has been a request for years, a known issue with existing work arounds and plugins that solve for it as best can by community members. Until bubble changes codebase, it’s all we can do.

I think somebody posted same exact topic a day or two ago, so clearly a concept many have had to wrangle with on bubble.

Can we eliminate anti-patterns from Bubble?

One of the things that really pisses me off about Bubble is the amount of antipatterns that are required to build basic functionality. One example is showing results in a searchbox. Let’s say you have a Company and Product and you want the searchbox results to show Company - Product. To do this, you have to create a new field, duplicate the data from two fields onto that new field, then use that as the search result. This runs contrary to general good practices and creates an enormous amount of …

But for your use case, why not search for Thing b by status and select thing b thing A to show all thing A whose thing B is the status to show, if your thing B has a related field of thing A? 1 to 1 relationships can help the way in which we search and filter to find the data we are looking for