WU Optimization - Create Multiple Things at once

molinarodrigo93 · 2024-08-16T15:06:04.324Z

Hi Buildcamp community,

I’m building an app where restaurants can easily create a menu by setting up categories, sub-categories, and items (I’ve created a data type for each). However, I’ve been reading about Bubble’s pricing with workload units, and I’m concerned that it might not be efficient if a restaurant wants to create 100 items, requiring them to fill out 100 forms individually.

So, I’m wondering if there’s a way to allow them to fill out 100 forms but only send the data to the database once, instead of each time a form is completed. For example, after completing the fields for a new item, there could be a button labeled “Add another item” that displays all the fields for creating a new item. Then, after filling in all the fields, the user could click a “Save” button to send all items at once to the database. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance!

msgiblin · 2024-08-16T15:22:04.120Z

Hi there,

I recommend you check out this topic:
Dynamic row addition in Repeating Group and bulk CRUD of Things using vanilla Bubble?

My other comment is that typically a restaurant will be adding the majority of the items once at the beginning, and then may add some specials and make changes along the way. This means based on your use case, the WU cost may seem high, but thats only at initial on-boarding.

animisha45 · 2024-08-16T15:38:29.653Z

Great suggestion by @msgiblin .

molinarodrigo93:

So, I’m wondering if there’s a way to allow them to fill out 100 forms

You can also have a look at Bulk upload using CSV. If you have reference fields of other data type, you might have to add some custom workflow for it.

Hope that helps!

molinarodrigo93 · 2024-08-16T15:49:21.630Z

@msgiblin This is pretty awesome. Thank you so much!

system · 2024-10-25T15:06:44.302Z

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