End user ability to create custom filters on their own data

[chadsmithclt]

Hi everyone,

I’m not even sure this is technically feasible, but I’ve given users the ability to build an API request for their own data via a 3rd party.

What I’m curious about is whether or not it is possible for users to then build filters on the API response (for example sum of ‘x’ object in the JSON, or (‘a’ - ‘b’) in the JSON.

This screenshot is just trying to visualize that a user will have their own REST response and would like to be able to make their own filters or do math on that info.

Thanks!!

[avm]

I would like to know too, I asked a similar question

How would I go about building a query builder element like Airtable has?

Learning WeWeb as I have a bubble app that I’m looking to possibly switch over. With my app, there are 50+ fields users can query against across a relational database. I had built these elements one by one to filter for in Bubble and it’s a pain in the butt to deal with. In bubble I would need to have a plugin built to have this sort of airtable like filtering. I actually noticed in one of the WeWeb tutorial videos this query builder exists somewhere in the editor (maybe in the API section?). …

[Alexis]

Yes of course, you can build your own interface and bind your variables to the REST API collection queries configuration, so the request will change depending of what your users selected in your interface. And you can apply filters on data depending of your users interactions too.

[chadsmithclt]

Makes sense, but the REST API is coming dynamically based on the users configuration, this is not data that I have in a database. In other words, I dont have a predefined API that I can bind to variables.

[Alexis]

You can bind a dynamic url into the REST API collection configuration, but you can even use a REST API workflow action if the collection layer doesn’t work for your usecase.