# Cannot make even simple JSON commands work

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/cannot-make-even-simple-json-commands-work/849551
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [September 25, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cannot-make-even-simple-json-commands-work/849551 "2020-09-25T19:38:33Z")
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### Author: ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cannot-make-even-simple-json-commands-work/849551/2 "2020-09-25T21:06:53Z")

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**Edit:** I used the same blocks as you and got it to work.

 ![Screen Shot 2020-09-25 at 2.37.40 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/4/d/4d300dc8eed884dddd0988668f3b5c1d4cb705e2.png)

But I re-build the JSON string. Here’s what I used:

[{“cat\_id”:“1”,“category”:“Love”,“status”:“1”}, {“cat\_id”:“2”,“category”:“Romantic”,“status”:“1”}, {“cat\_id”:“3”,“category”:“Friendship”,“status”:“1”}, {“cat\_id”:“2”,“category”:“Attitude”,“status”:“1”}]

It looks the same as yours, right? There must be something missing in yours, though.

Your JSON includes brackets which designate a list. So when you’re retrieving the data, you’d have to first get the first list item of _app data_ and then get the third item of that list and then get the property (“category”) of that item.

Also, you’ve initialized _app data_ as a list but then turned it into an object. I don’t think you can do list manipulation on objects.

I see where you read this: [How to create Dynamic List View for display all json data - #9 by User81](http://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-create-dynamic-list-view-for-display-all-json-data/36734/9).

I’m not 100% sure that’s properly-formatted JSON. I use this site to verify JSON strings: [https://jsonformatter-online.com](https://jsonformatter-online.com).

I’m going to see if I can work up a demo…

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