Evaluating Bubble and have queries

[shaheed.fazal]

Hi,

Hope you are well.

I am currently a Zoho Creator user but am facing a few limitations with the platform so would like to explore alternatives. Since I have a number of queries, I thought it would be best to summarise them in a Google Doc that can be found here.

It would be great if whoever has experience with the platform to comment on the document in order to assist me.

I like what I see so far though it will be a big change and I want to make sure that I invest my time wisely.

Apologies about the length of the document. I really appreciate your time.

Many thanks,

Shaheed

[shaheed.fazal]

Hi

I would really appreciate a response from someone!

Best Regards,

Shaheed

[duke.severn]

@shaheed.fazal

If say for example, I enter a customer number, can Bubble fetch the data from the relevant form and bring it into the current form?

Yes, you have a database that is accessible throughout your application. You can set privacy rules that allow read/write conditions to specific types of users as well.

@shaheed.fazal

Can fields in a form be shown or hidden depending on:

• User
• Value in another form

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Conditional workflows

Of course

@shaheed.fazal

Performing actions on a collection of records in a list.
Importing data in bulk from a web service in order to:

• Create
• Update
• Delete

Yes, though background processes and workflows you call on a schedule, as well as bulk data imports are available only on paid plans. You can look at the pricing and see if it’s worth exploring for you. Pricing | Bubble

@shaheed.fazal

Creating key:value pairs and iterating over records in the key:value pair

I don’t know what this means, maybe someone else can pipe in here

@shaheed.fazal

Performing on the fly SQL queries

I’m not sure I understand this question, as I’m not that familiar with SQL queries. Someone could probably answer better but here’s my best shot.

I think Bubble’s data architecture is non-sql, and that means you can modify the data structure itself on the fly as well as run queries through Bubble’s workflow system. I make conditionals based on data in my apps, which means the back-end runs the queries on the fly. I hope I got this right.

Welcome to Bubble, I think it does everything you’re looking for. If you need help getting started check out the Templates section to get a feel for what bubble can do, and there’s a bunch of vid on youtube to help you evaluate the platform. Cheers!

[duke.severn]

My bad I’ve just learned that Bubble is built on Postgresql database.

[shaheed.fazal]

Thanks ever so much for your reply. I’ll study the videos and then documentation as well. I have also subscribed to the code free course on Building and AirBnB clone.

The platform certainly looks good but time will tell I guess.