But, of course, that shows all the notes that anyone has created, not the notes of the unique user. If it’s filtered for LOGGED IN USER NOTES, the screen goes blank:
Did you add Logged in user to the User property on the form that creates the note in the automatically section? Or in the Create action if you are using a custom form?
Is there any user added for that already created notes?
Are you logged in as a user that created the note already?
You need the user to not to create notes but they can select the notes and add them from the given notes. Like a favourite system. And then they can edit them too. For editing you need to create another collection and connect that collection to the list instead of the notes collection otherwise everyone’s editing will overlap and not user specific.
When a user comes to the NOTES page the first time they find the list is prepopulated with character names and images and the note field is either empty or has some boilerplate text.
When a character’s note is clicked a modal pops up and they can enter new notes or edit existing notes and, with a click of a button, the modal disappears and any additions or edits appear in the list.
There are exactly nine characters and so there will only ever be nine notes.
The only other criteria is that notes should be user-specific.
I actually had all that working before but somehow screwed it up and can’t get back there.
Am I trying to show some data [Red] to all users then, at the same time, show other data [Blue] from the same entry to only the LOGGED IN USER?
So maybe I only imagined I had it working before?
Would a solution be to create 9 identical pages connected to 9 identical databases, each with its own set of notes filtered for LOGGED IN USER? It seems cumbersome. Is it a ‘best practice?’
So like the users can add new notes for that clicked note. Like sub notes. User clicks the note and they can create and edit sub notes and main note. And they can see the created sub notes too! Correct?
No, not really. I had hoped they could just keep adding to one big note but it has slowly dawned on me that Adalo can’t really do it that way so I’ve decided to go the ‘9 identical pages connected to 9 identical databases’ approach:
It looks okay but it’s a lot of extra work. Thanks for your help, @dilon_perera. I think I couldn’t have figured out those limitations without your input. I find this is my biggest challenge right now, knowing what Adalo can and can’t do without ridiculous workarounds.
That certainly does the trick! I like that all notes are compiled in just one place. It might get a bit unwieldy if students add a lot of notes but typically ESL students aren’t so verbose. You could even create just one note per character and use the ‘pencil’ to add and edit. I might restructure things to follow this pattern.
No worries. With my newfound knowledge I think I could make that from scratch. [I’ve learned soooo much in just one month.] Nice to have access to a clone though if things go wrong.
