Uploaded picture sometimes not recorded in database

[thib]

I’m working on an Instagram clone.
I use a form to ask the user to upload a picture (called: “post_image”). When doing that, I automatically set the database fields “post_author” and “author_profilepicture” to the logged-in user’s username and user’s profile picture.

Unfortunately, both pictures (author_profilepicture & post_image) do not appear in my “newsfeed” which is a custom list. Only the author’s username appears correctly.

Surprisingly, when building an “edit profile” feature where logged-in users can edit their profile picture, everything works fine.

Thanks in advance for your help. Not sure if this is a bug on Adalo’s end or mine. I tried many time to solve this, relaunch the app, change the database field names, etc.

[Ben]

@thib could you share a screen shot or screen recording of how you have the magic text in your custom list set up?

[thib]

Here it is for the “author_image”.

Almost same path for “post_image”.

The “new post” form setup might be helpful here:

It seems like the automatic field is not “catching” the logged-in user’s profile picture.

Other might be helpful image:

The post_image gets recorded correctly in the collection but does not display in the newsfeed (as stated before). The author_image remains empty…

Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Thibaut

[ashley]

Instead of using the automatic field try setting it up on the action of the submit button as an extra action to update the new post.