Hey, I’m currently creating an app with Xano as the backend. This is the first app with an external database.
Now I’m facing the problem that in Xano, the data fields point to other data types. In Bubble, it’s simple, e.g., Current User’s list of books first Item title. I built it similarly in Xano. How can I replicate this mechanism, as in the example, with the API connector?
My idea was to make an API call to a specific data record and then use it as a plugin type in the next call. Here’s an image of the idea as an example.
Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but I am pretty sure you need to save those ID’s as text. Then you can refer to them in Xano from those IDs. Does that make sense? It’s not as simple as doing things directly in Bubble. Bubble makes it easy.
as @J805 said, these will be pulled as IDs that you can use to pull those related records from Xano using endpoints for their specific datatype or you can customize this GET endpoint to include the related data as add-ons in the endpoint’s response.
Xano doesn’t support Bubble-style deep references directly. The usual approach is to handle relationships on the Xano side by expanding or joining related records in the API response, so Bubble receives all needed data in one call. Then you can map those fields normally in the API Connector, instead of chaining multiple calls or plugin types.
