Looking for some insight on Xano edit vs patch or someone with a solid understanding of Xano

[ctown]

I’m trying to wrap my head around the Xano endpoints. If I have a user table with lets say 12 fields and I have form fields on my front end set to update on change. Does that mean that I need an update endpoint for each field? It seems that the API call just to update a record pulls all the fields but I’m only updating them one at a time essentially. Does a blank entry overwrite with a null value? I feel like it would be cumbersome and a burden on resources to fetch a different API call for each field update.

[aasiffreelancer]

Hi ctown,

I am also facing this. i fixed that please dm me I will help you
thanks

[Dominic]

Hi,

Check this topic:

PATCHing in Xano, how does it really work?

Hi, after i switched to Xano from Supabase, i am confused with the PATCH query. Do i really need to define for each request what i want to change in the Endpoint/Table? E.g. i want to change only the username, so from my experience i have to make a separate Endpoint only for changing the username. Otherwise, if not, it will fill the other columns with “ “, basically giving an empty entry. Is there any other way to have it in one Endpoint?

This must be managed on Xano side but it is not very difficult.

Dominik

[ctown]

After looking into this for a bit I found the following:

Conditionally Editing Fields | Xano Documentation

This seemed to be the easiest in terms of my current needs.