# Firebase - Trying to get results **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Tags:** firebase, beginner\ **Created:** [August 21, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/firebase-trying-to-get-results/189625 "2019-08-21T03:03:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mike\_Fourway\_Flasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@Mike\_Fourway\_Flasher](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Mike_Fourway_Flasher)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/firebase-trying-to-get-results/189625/1 "2019-08-21T03:03:01Z")
I’m sure this has been answered somewhere on these boards, but I’m having a hell of a time looking for the right answer. If anyone can either help me out, or point me in the right direction that would be great. I am trying to draw some information from my Firebase database. ![1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/3/0373d1faefa668bacae5a643a2dda6eab06a46d0.png) I have successfully managed to grab the titles of all of the books using this code: ![2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/9/5/95902998b15bfdfaca6d0cc82c68763dcd223c8d.png) Next, (and here is where I am failing brilliantly) I am trying to get the issues related to the book title that I select. I can’t even anything show up. I’m fairly certain that it has something to do with the ID, however at this point I don’t even know. I am looking for this result: Issues\> random number \> issue Can anyone point me in the right direction? ---
**Author:** ![samclever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@samclever](https://community.thunkable.com/u/samclever)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 4:28am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/firebase-trying-to-get-results/189625/2 "2019-08-21T04:28:24Z")
I save my lists as a text string and then convert them to a list after they are called. Makes it simpler in my opinion. When saving the list I set it to make Text to list and when I call it I set it as list from text. ![listTOtext](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/6/9/698c4fbd2ac21c8ffde66e3a0cf09f3f5c6dc069.png) ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Fourway\_Flasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@Mike\_Fourway\_Flasher](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Mike_Fourway_Flasher)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 4:55am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/firebase-trying-to-get-results/189625/3 "2019-08-21T04:55:51Z")
Thank you Sam, Can you give me a quick example of how you save and call that list? I’ll be playing around with this for a bit in the meantime ---
**Author:** ![samclever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@samclever](https://community.thunkable.com/u/samclever)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 4:59am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/firebase-trying-to-get-results/189625/4 "2019-08-21T04:59:59Z")
Try that and watch what it does on the Firebase side. Then when you call it, it will convert it back to a list. (i used a listviewer for the fun of it, try it out) ![Mike1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/7/a/7adf029e599f58e6c14e9ce1ab467148e87e64a3.png) ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Fourway\_Flasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@Mike\_Fourway\_Flasher](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Mike_Fourway_Flasher)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/firebase-trying-to-get-results/189625/5 "2019-08-21T19:50:24Z")
I’m not sure your method will work for me, as I have lots of data (or will have), I’m trying to get the issue # from the table Issues to display. I’d be happy if I could get all issue # s to display, because then I could get the info I needed. There should be a way to do this however I’m at a loss. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Fourway\_Flasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@Mike\_Fourway\_Flasher](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Mike_Fourway_Flasher)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 4:49am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/firebase-trying-to-get-results/189625/6 "2019-08-22T04:49:07Z")
So I did some digging around and I’m able to get all of the data now, but at this point I’m unsure of how to manipulate it to what I want it to do… ![3](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/a/c/ac1e0cf9be5981ca092416d14ef543a7ba1f55eb.png) which returns… ![46](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/3/c/3cc428de418185f4767b4b3692f3945e60c93907.png) What do I have to do next to make it only show the Issue # ? Bonus, what do I need to do to show the Issue #(s) for my selected title? ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Fourway\_Flasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@Mike\_Fourway\_Flasher](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Mike_Fourway_Flasher)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/firebase-trying-to-get-results/189625/7 "2019-08-23T19:19:55Z")
OK continuing on with this experiment, I have figured out that Thunkable may not know how to handle push keys. Or if it does, I just don’t know how to make it work. In my above DB example I have no problem accessing data from my titles table (IDs run 0,1,2 etc), however if I try to grab from my issues table then I run into problems. Does anyone have any tips with working with Push Keys? ---
**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 12:11pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/firebase-trying-to-get-results/189625/8 "2024-11-08T12:11:46Z")