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kenneth_rapp

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what am i doing wrong with data source?

Aug 10, 2012 7:06 PM

Tags: #app #web #data #template #source

Sorry, I've looked around to try to find the answer to this and I haven't been able to.

I have two web apps. One, "Locations," holds a list of addresses for several stores, with tags like {location_street_address}, {location_phone_number}. Another web app, "StoreGallery", holds items to be showcased at these stores, and in it i've defined Locations as a data source field. So that for each item, they can associate an item with a specific store.

So in the detail template for StoreGallery I added one of the tags from Locations, thinking that by having defined the data source, the tags from one would work in the other, but they don't. I was only able to find tutorials on how to create the data source field but not on how to actually apply them in templates.

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1. Liam Dilley,

Aug 10, 2012 7:45 PM in reply to kenneth_rapp

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Hi Kenneth,
The current version of web apps does not work like that.
When you define a data store all that does is provide a link to the other web app item you associate it with. You can not put tags you built from one web app in another.
The Data source output which is a hyperlink is the only thing you have.

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2. kenneth_rapp,

Aug 10, 2012 8:02 PM in reply to Liam Dilley

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No of course it wouldn't work like that because that would be efficient and useful unlike whatever javascript hack I'm going to have to figure out to make it kind of work like that.

I don't suppose making it work like that is in the cards for a future release?

LiamDilley wrote:

Hi Kenneth,
The current version of web apps does not work like that.
When you define a data store all that does is provide a link to the other web app item you associate it with. You can not put tags you built from one web app in another.
The Data source output which is a hyperlink is the only thing you have.

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3. Liam Dilley,

Aug 10, 2012 8:24 PM in reply to kenneth_rapp

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Check the BC Blog Roadmap Post.

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4. kenneth_rapp,

Aug 10, 2012 9:04 PM in reply to Liam Dilley

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Alright. I just replicated all the fields I needed into the other web app. All I can do I guess.

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