Is there a way to do this? As best I can tell there’s no update action for setting a field’s value back to null once it has been set. This is the scenario I’m in if you want more context: Ideally there would be an additional option on the menu there for “Null.” I’ve added it as a featur…

I’ve been messing around with it since you posted and I’m stumped too. It’d be a great feature to reset a field or even a label (txt).

I stumbled across this as I wanted the same thing. I have a rough workaround for anyone else who lands here. In this instance I added a text field to one of the collections called ‘always_null’ which is never set. I can then update the field that I want to set to null by … setting it to user -> a…

Found this thread a whole lot later running into the same problem. What I ended up doing: I have a separate screen (not linked in any way) with some text inputs that act as app level variables. I added one ‘always null’ text input - which is empty. I can recall that field in any action anywhere …

I guess the None option would do the trick too? :eyes: [image] [image] Press button -> update user -> make fields empty Database @axme You can set the text field/s to ‘empty’ by updating it to Date & Time = none. Wonky, but it works.

Thanks! Didn’t know about that workaround. That just feels… weird… haha Setting a date type to a textfield. But whatever works.

Thanks @Dilon . I have no idea how you remember all this, you should have somebody update the official help files with this stuff. I consider this my greatest contribution to the forum. Side note…Can you imagine the day when that menu has an arrow to your collections and relationships. :sloth:

[image] Rozza: Side note…Can you imagine the day when that menu has an arrow to your collections and relationships. This one right? : [image] I guess it’s there since Adalo released! [image] [image]

Not quite what I meant. I meant date picker then… Logged in User Or Current Trip Sorry for confusing things.

[image] Rozza: Not quite what I meant. I meant date picker then… Logged in User Or Current Trip Hmm… I feel like I didn’t get it :eyes: You mean that section?

Update a field to null?

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I guess the None option would do the trick too?

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