So basically I am building the expenses tracker app and in that basically what the user does is they sign up for an account and anytime they like let’s say buy an item at a store, they open the app and they manually add a transaction.
So basically the problem I am having is that if a user If the user has already added a transaction, let’s say, for a particular date, MAY 9th and now is adding a new transaction on May 10th. What is happening is that it is overwriting ALL the May 9th transaction with May 10th. And I need to know how to fix this to create separate like different, different dates. And within that, the same data structure should be there.
So I am just attaching the pictures of the code and showing you the database structure in firebase.
Thank you very much.
Warmly,
Varun Kadapatti
The problem is that you are replacing the entire /expenses every time you click to add an expense:
What you need to do is to add an item onto the end of /expenses. I think if you set cloud variable app variable sessionemail/“expenses”/call date's Get Date to [some object or value] then it should work fine. You may have to remove special characters from the date value if they don’t work as a Firebase realtime database property name.
You can also ask ChatGPT or another AI how to do this efficiently with Firebase and Thunkable.
I feel my logic is correct in this case. The one thing I want to know is how to traverse the data under “expenses”. Is there a way to loop through the records under “expenses” using for loop?
The way it works is:
Loop through every entry under “expenses” i.e. check every date under “expenses”
if the Entered date matches with a particular date under “expenses”
then add the transaction unnder that particular date.
But the qn. is how to loop through tthe records?
ChatGPT and gemini were not of much help - they don’t understand precisely what I’m trying to do.
Thanks
Warmly,
Varun
Can you post the entire JSON response as text? Be sure to format it using the </> button in the toolbar right above the post.
Could you please specify for which part of the code i should send the JSON response for?
Hello, I was able to identify the issue in the code and fix it. Than you very much!
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