Creating a form using a custom list

[bwilder]

Hi,
I’m building a survey tool for journaling. I’m struggling to save the responses to the assigned questions.

Here’s more info:

• I am using Xano as my backend
• A set of questions (aka prompts) are assigned to a user. Assigned prompts are attached to set and attached to a user.
• Responses are a different table. They attached to an assigned prompt.
• The user clicks on an assigned set of prompts and it takes them to a screen to input responses. I then show a list of those assigned prompts.

I’ve added a text input field to the custom list. However, when I go add an action to the Save button, it won’t recognize the text input field within the list.

I’m pretty sure I can’t use the standard Form component for this. Maybe a custom action?

Any and all help is appreciated! let me know if you need more info from me / I wasn’t clear enough.

[theadaloguy]

Any update action will only have fields that Adalo recognises from when you set up the external collection.

You can use a custom action like you say, or you can use conditional logic inside your update endpoint to make the update action behave entitely differently.

My response in this thread uses the idea of custom behaviour for Update endpoint and might give you some ideas:

Adding users to chat (Xano Database)

So you have conversations table and inside it, you have an array of users i guess. Relationships work quite different with Xano-Adalo, you need to set things up to work as you intend. A great way to do this is to have conditional logic on Xano on the UPDATE endpoint. After the initial update conversation in your function stack, have a conditional like this: if input.conversation.created_at = ****ADDUSER then update conversation > users = conversation.user APPEND input user ID. To break this…

[bwilder]

Hey @theadaloguy, I appreciate the response!

I was somewhat able to follow your response to the other thread. I can’t quite see how I can apply it here, but it’s at least got the wheels spinning.

Thanks,