My prior post was closed as I was traveling and the 10 days rule applied (besides having Victor and few others replying to our questions/helps adding few more people dedicated to address those questions and few more days to allow more time to think, test and reply would help). In any event I further tested my countdown which has a “sometimes” in the create record but it disregard it and keep creating all records. I was just trying to create records of items with unique name from a list of different items some of which had identical names. It seems pretty straight forward but it didn’t work. I don’t know if I am doing something wrong or there is indeed a bug.
If anybody could shed some light I would be ecstatic
Thanks in advance
First of all thanks for your prompt reply. Some of your explanations are not clear to me as I am a novice in this area definitely not your fault. However I think I owe you some background explanation in order to understand what I am trying to accomplish. I am building an app to collect and create recipes from scratch starting from my family old ones. It seems a very common endeavor but the ones that I have found are far from what I perceived to be a decent one. Having said that because of the nature of my app I will have to have duplicate items. In pastry in particular you will find that the same ingredient is used in different quantities for the same preparation. In essence you may have an ingredient used few times with different quantities in the same recipe The whole issues shared in my note arises from the impossibility to create a shopping list which combines ingredients with different quantities into a single item with cumulative quantities. Having said that I was trying to create a shopping list with records of unique ingredients and a duplicate list with records of duplicate ingredients with the idea combine them into a unique list at the end. Of course I was never able to get there.
For your info I am using the Adalo dB and giving my needs, I don’t know if using the Firebase Realtime dB would solve the problem but you can shed some light on this. I am a little lost on the atomic part but I will search for more infos.
As a general comment while I understand the countdown purpose I am a bit surprised that Adalo uses this technique for bulk changes instead of a normal loop (for – next) approach that would work way better, more dynamic and less cumbersome than this. Another option to avoid the “race condition” would be to sequence the countdown through the list of items in progressive order instead of racing it, like a normal loop. Again I am a rookie in this area but it seems that we are complicating simple things.
Again thanks for your help
gio