Dear Thunk-friends,
I have a Firebase database in which I have the vocabulary I need to study (just as the picture). I want to concatenate the column “portuguese” and “alemão” and display the result in a ListView as “Guten Morgen - bom dia”, “Guten Tag - boa tarde”.
It’s not working. In a local database I did the same and it was working…
Any ideas?
Can you please show a mock up of what you want the result to show?
I think I know, however I can be very slow so I need more details 
Well, I was just preparing to answer you when I had an insight!
This code written above was to get some of my vocabulary from a firebase database and display it to me in a list view.
I expected to get:
Guten tag - bom dia
Gute Nacht - boa noite
…
But the only thing I was getting was an empty list or a list with one item. Remember yesterday in my previous post that I said I had to put a function WAIT…SENCONDS for some task to work? Prior to sending you this message, I tried it here and it worked.
Here would be a solution:
I might be wrong, but I feel that everytime you have a CALL FROM DATABASE statement inside a FOR EACH J statement, you MUST put this WAIT…SECONDS to get it to work.
It seems to be a problem from the platform. To debug this error I inserted a label on my screen to show in which variable J the app was to understand why my list wasn’t being built. I found that the app would crazily make a list of J’s without accomplishing the task inside the statement.
Another problem is that you cannot trust the results shown. For example: if you ask the app to WAIT 2 SECONDS between getting the results, you get wrong outputs. Take a look below.
If my code had another WAIT…SECONDS:
the outputs from the app would be repeated with one word refferring to more that one meaning:
When I remove the extra WAIT…SECONDS, what I get is
My conclusion is that you cannot trust it at all. Maybe what I will have to do is to make that WEB API you told me about yesterday. In fact I tried, but I still get no result and I have no clue about where my problem is.
Hi,
If you can export the database data to JSON format and send it to me, then I will look at the algorithm. I do not think that there is great difficulty.
The idea is simple. Need nodes 0,1,2 and so on. get as a list of objects. After that, you can display any data from this list of objects in the ListViewer.
Wow, thank you so much for trying to help me. I might have done a silly mistake there, but I cannot identify… As it doesn’t return anything, maybe it could also have a problem to connect to the json.
I made a blank app just to run tests. The link is https://x.thunkable.com/copy/24b02d9b9d14a0ad9b5bdab6c0464027
My json address is https://myvocab-30705.firebaseio.com/.json
Thank you once again!
I need to leave now, so I will show my example, which I did. If you do not understand, then in 3-4 hours I can make your example.
Oh, thank you! I did mine similar to yours. It’s missing a purple statement that I don’t know what it is. Can you show me when you come back?
I log into the database using email and password, so the block is like that. Therefore, I added the SignIn block in order to quickly show my example. I think you don’t need this block here)
You are right, in my case I don’t need this block. In your app can you really display this list? In mine it doesn’t work…
If I put the key=“commands” (in my case “myvocab-30705”), the list is not displayed. Instead, if I put a number, requesting only one row, it really works.
If you could, would you take a look at this for me? The project is on Thunkable. It contains only one screen to make the tests easier.
Guys, I have an update. Based on what actech sent previously, I made some changes and it really worked for me.
Some extra information:
Hope I could help anyone with my crash history. Now I’m like a headless chicken (and crashed!).
Thank you guys for all your support!
My blocks are 100% working, but they work for FireBase. Now I will make your blocks.
If you give me your ThunkableX app for FireBase project and Firebase Settings (API Key and Database URL)to it (in a personal message), then I will help you to make it work.
The difficulty is that you are a bit confused with how to specify the paths to nodes in the database, what is the list of objects. You have nodes 0, 1 … 42. You need to create a parent node and move all these nodes into it, as shown in my example.
In my example, the parent node “commands” and all nodes are in it.
I think this was my problem! I still don’t know how to use nodes. I was skimming through other examples and I realized that my json structure is a bit different from the ones people usually have. I am really making a confusion.
I made 2 different databases and they look just the same (except for the ID I added to the second):
When I look at the JSON file, there I find the difference:
Database 1: {“0”:{“Alemao”:“Guten Morgen”,“Box”:0,“Data”:"",“Nivel”:“A1”,“Portugues”:“bom dia”,“aux”:""},…}
Database 2: [{“Alemao”:“Guten Morgen”,“Box”:0,“Data”:"",“Nivel”:“A1”,“Portugues”:“bom dia”,“aux”:"",“id”:1},…]
This is the confusion I am making. My JSON was originally written as DATABASE 1, and most of the examples I saw contain a JSON file like DATABASE 2.
Now I will tell
actech: I replicated your blocks but cannot get it to work. Can you take a look at the blocks and Firebase info below? Greatly appreciate any help.
To get the value of a field, you must correctly specify the path to this field. To do this, select a field and look at the path to it above the tree area, for example,
The path in my example is highlighted in a red frame
The “cloud” variable will know to hit Firebase? Do I initialize “cloud?” Thanks
