Why not have some variable option in page level to store data for calculation or manipulation.
why still we have to use a popup and a group inside it to store data ?
I know we have custom state but we cannot store data into it unless we do lot of searching in page load ?
use custom states. they are variables in bubble. Even though they have a name custom states they are variables.
You can do them at the page level or any element.
use custom states. they are variables in bubble. Even though they have a name custom states they are variables.
You can do them at the page level or any element.
Sure.. but custom states have some major limitations, and are hard to work with (RE Properties are way better, and the closest Bubble has got to getting this right - but it’s still a fair way off the mark).
Bubble should (like most other serious no/low-code and visual dev platforms do), have a proper, native way to declare and define variables - in both the front and back end, with both global scope, and local scope…
It’s such a basic feature, and has been requested for years - it’s baffling to me why such a fundamental aspect of programming doesn’t have a properly thought out and workable implementation in Bubble – especially considering how essential variables are for even moderately complex logic.
Sure, there are native Bubble ways to work with variables (as well as various plugin options), but they are ALL way more complicated than they need to be and, given that the stated aim of no-code systems like Bubble is to make development simpler, forcing users into clumsy and inefficient work-arounds for simple things like declaring variables in WFs (or elsewhere) is a clear failure to deliver on that promise.
Actually, the same can be said for a number of other basic programming concepts in Bubble (i.e. looping and conditional logic). Where the ‘Bubble’ way of doing things (if there even is one) is often more difficult and complex than the more traditionally inspired ways of other no/low code environments, or even just writing code instead.
Stuff like this is why @keith had a mental breakdown and left Bubble.
