I have a list of texts as a field in a type of thing that I’m using to populate a dropdown. I need to set a custom state of element x whenever the dropdown value is changed. The custom state needs to be the index# (or position in list) of the selected value in the dropdown. how do i get the index of a specific item in the list of text or from the dropdown?
Take a look at this Any way to know the numeric position of a specific entry within a list
You will likely need the JS to Bubble or Expression element of the Toolbox plugin for this.
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How do i go about using expression element of the Toolbox plugin?
Here’s a quick example that may help - https://bubble.io/page?type=page&name=expression_demo&id=louisforum&tab=tabs-1
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Thanks! This works perfectly.
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Hi Louis you’ve been of great help. Do you know how i can have the dropdown value index descend when app is used on a mobile device? Dropdowns seem to populate from last to first (upside-down) when opened on mobile devices (android % IOS) which makes what was last on the list first and changes the indexing accordingly. This defeats the purpose of me using indexes to begin with.
That’s odd. I’d never seen or heard that before. I wonder what, within ios or android, causes that to happen.
Anyway, I think there are plugins that detect what type of device your user is using, so you may be able to set a condition on the expression element for when the user is on an android or ios device. I have updated my example linked above to reverse the index when the screen width is 550px or less, just to show how the expression would look. I hope it helps. I would advise that you use this with caution though - be sure to confirm that it is indeed the device type that causes the index order to be reversed.
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