Hello, I just tested the new released mutli-reference feature, and I have a couple of questions. My assumption here is that I have an Item object class and a Selection object class that reference this item as multireference (meaning that one selection can have multiples items). In the app, I listed the items (in an iterative object) and when clicking on it, it’s adding the item into the selection (object Selection cardinality one in the datasource)
- To add an item into my selection, I didn’t find any way to go to a function and use array.push to add the _id of my object, is there any other better approach ?
- To remove an item, it’s the same, need to use a function to remove a specific item from the list
- last but not least, the attribute “items” from my selection is not exposed into graphQL (or, not yet
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Note that I wanted to keep it simple without creating too many runtime datasource
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Working with an additionnal Runtime (cardinality many, object class item) to reference the list of items of my selected selection makes things a bit easier, but still need to use two “steps” to add an item in the list:
- first add the item into that Runtime items (for selected selection)
- update the list of items into the selection with all value of the runtime
Hi Jeremy!
Regarding the first two points: Does the key feature number 2 (“add/remove ids”) help? You can use the Value Processor in an Update Object, as in the linked example in bullet # 2 in the below link.
I am not sure about the GraphQL part - will come back with an answer on that!
A quick update on this one:
- There guide is correct regarding adding or removing items in the multi-ref list, but there is a bug when you try to clear/remove the last item. Will be patched soon.
- GraphQL: If you have the multiref property
tags it currently does not appear if you try to list {persons} in GraphQL. This challenge is registered. You must currently specify the name of the property (tags) in the list of properties to return, e.g. {persons {_id, tags}}
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Hi Kristian, thanks a lot for the quick answer, and sorry for asking something that was clearly mentionned in the doc.
I went too fast in the update object doc (maybe because the Multi cardinaliy - Value processor tab is not shown by default, but I actually have no other good excuse ^^)
So it actually working fine like described with the Value processor (add/remove).
Good to know that it’s already available in GraphQL !
So far so good ! Validated new feature !
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Ah. I struggle very hard with deleting the last reference… so waiting for the fix.
Hi
There is another bug in multi reference.
a product has product* as reference. When clicking on a product I add it to the product* field, by referencing the product(temp)-products* → add selection (product). This unfortunately only works if there are already at least one product referenced, but not if there are no products in the field.
Therefore I need a workaround that checks if empty. If empty I just reference the product (Context), if it is NOT emtpy I take the current value (product temp - products) and add selection (product).
Similar as the problem with deleting the last, just the opposite way.
Thanks,
Can you provide a few screenshots of the setup to make sure we can reproduce it equally?