Big Question for builders

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Hi, everyone. I’m facing a situation and would like to know how you would handle it.
I don’t have access to the API because of my current plan.

I have an app where parents order meals for their children. The parents place the order, and the children simply pick up their meals by showing the order number.

The problem:
If Adalo goes down (Builder access and Apps access), the person in charge of delivering the food to the kids won’t be able to know what their parents ordered.

*Let’s say the Adalo outage happens right during the part of the day when these meals are being delivered.

-I know that with the API, each order could be fed into a spreadsheet via MAKE just after parents placed it which could then be checked manually to verify the order, but as I said, I don’t have access to the API.

¿How could they know what meals to deliver to the child, what would you do guys?

¿Could zapier do the job?

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I’m not an expert.

For a simple, possible low-cost solution, you may consider, or learn about web hooks.

Or, share screen-shots in a group text.

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Hi @Fercho,

First - if Adalo goes down, Adalo API also goes down, so plan upgrade won’t help.

I assume that you have an access to Custom Actions. This means you can send information from Adalo to some external target. So I would think about a flow like:

  • parent creates the order in the app
  • app launches custom action and send order detail to Make scenario via webhook
  • Make scenario takes the payload and adds it to, say, Google Sheet
  • You have google sheet as a backup meals’ list.

Best regards, Victor.

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Thanks to both guys @C3PO @Victor it works with webhooks

I just need to figure out how to merge multiple text (order product names) into one single text field.

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Hi, if you use back-up service/API it has the same problem, you can’t promise 100% reliability on any platform that runs online, unless you add some offline capability, as I know that’s not possible on Adalo, at least not easily. Adalo has outages very rarely, so I don’t think you should really worry yourself with that

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Thank you @onnit_studio , but even though Adalo rarely has any issues, when it comes to children’s nutrition or meals, you can’t take things lightly.

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Hi @Fercho,

If you would like to merge multiple values from multiple records in the same collection, that will be cumbersome.
But as an idea - you can send data when adding records one by one: when a parent orders a meal, you make a custom action call which sends details to Make.

Best,
Victor.

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thanks @Victor

i think there was a component that marge text… :thinking:

i dont’t remember the developer.