In your first screenshot, youāre initializing app tempObject to āā (an empty string) but then checking if does app tempObject contain [your text input]. Thatās always going to be false because itās an empty string that youāre checking.
I think your mistake is that youāre setting stored LOGIN_INFO to the ith item of app tempList (an empty list) but you should instead be setting app tempObject to in list app entireList get #i.
Hi @tatiang, thank you for pointing this out! I have now made the adjustment where I had accidently added the login variable but I am still seeing no results. Just to confirm, does this look like Iām approaching the search the right way? Iām hoping the search results will display within the āitem-listā - or thinking about it, it is more ideal that everything other than the results disappear if that makes sense - since that list is already populated.
I hope I donāt come across as too silly but I really donāt understand what Iām looking at in that screen, I canāt gauge the logical order of things! Iāll keep trying!
Sorry I canāt help further today. I have sworn off the app builder (not the forum tho ) this week in an effort to spend time working on my thesis. If you are still experiencing this during this coming weekend I will try to help. i doubt you will be though. Keep at it!
This might be off post topic butā¦ my whole project relates to the fact that mobile technology is ubiquitous and paper and pencil anything is pretty much outdated and not always handy at this point for most of our culture/society. As a behavioral scientist and applied behavior analyst working with individuals with autism, data are important to me. They let me know whether or not my intervention is working. The more there are the better. The sooner i get them the better. The more reliable/accurate they are, the better. These let me know whether or not i need to change the program or keep it the same and i can make these decisions on a day to day basis when i have sufficient data.
Many of the parents and educators I work with frequently complain that they have to record data with pencil and paper. they say it is not convenient and cumbersome. So, they just donāt do it. Instead of strong arming families into taking data or threatening to take away services if they donāt, Iād rather use a different approach and build a system conducive to data collecting itself.
I am studying the efficacy of a simple electronic data collection system with built in prompts (push messages) and social rewards (i text my clients after they submit data about the data with a personalized message) as compared to traditional data collection methods of leaving a data sheet with a parent and collecting it in 2 weeks to a month. I want to find out which one results in more data collecting behaviors.
I will then present this at a conference later in the year hopefully. I have already piloted the app and my parents really like it compared with previous data sheets I have left them. Now, itās time to go through the human subjects institutional review board and get actual study participants!
Medicine is already using this mobile tech to help with medicine adherence and getting patients to appointments. I want to bring it to the world of mental health for this and at least 1 other study I plan to conduct this year
[ALSO] if anybody ever wants to talk autism treatment, behavior analysis, psychology, the value of data collection, or organizational business management. HIT ME UP!
Sorry, my Adobe Illustrator just de-licensed itself so Iām not as able to illustrate what I mean but in the newest screenshot, when you click the Item-Search-Button, it calls the function updateTempList and then thereās an error in this section:
You need to replace app tempList with app entireList
Iām not 100% sure that will fix everything but Iād start there. If thatās still not working, consider sharing a link to your project. Itās a bit tricky to troubleshoot without seeing the whole thing.
Variable x is my airtable list, and variable y is a temporary empty-list (which would be the search results list later). I have used a listViewer in my example, which is set to showcase the x list. So, when the user inputs his query, and hits the search button,
First, the listviewer goes blank, showing that itās searching.
Next, the y list is re-set to an empty list, just to erase the previous search results.
Now a for-loop runs itself, and iterates item-by-item in the x list.
Inside nested is an if-else condition, which (for every item) checks weather the item contains the given input.
If yes, then in the y list, it inserts the item, which means the item is one of the search results.
Everytime the y list gets updated, the ListViewer refreshes too, showing the user the latest list.
If the item does NOT contain the input, it continues with next iteration (item) of the loop.
This process loops everytime, till the very-last item if the x list.
Hope I helped you!
Good Luck!
Thanks!
P.S. My Solution is somewhat like @tatiangās, but itās efficient and uses less blocks. Both would properly work for you
Hey @kartik14, this seems to be making some progress - everything disappears as though it is waiting to present some items however nothing appearsā¦ the one by @tatiang seems to not do anything and I imagine it is something else in my code causing the issue. Here is what happens so far:
Hi @tatiang, thank you for this! Iāve given that a go but it still seems as though it doesnāt want to budge. Nothing seems to happen when I actually click that search button. I have tried @kartik14 idea and it seems to be making everything disappear as though expecting results to occur however nothing seems to show. I assume itās issues elsewhere in my code.
Is app entireList populated with data? What happens when you try to view it using a list viewer or with something like from label set text to in list get #1? Just to verify that itās not empty.
What happens when you set a labelās text to from Item-Search-Input get Text to verify that that is not empty?
Can you PM me a link to your project or post it here?
Iāll keep trying!
) this week in an effort to spend time working on my thesis. If you are still experiencing this during this coming weekend I will try to help. i doubt you will be though. Keep at it!
Good luck on your thesis!! 
