Hi! My name is Adam and I’ve been a Bubbler for 3 years now. I am currently making the switch from Bubble to WeWeb and I have gone through the WeWeb academy, tried working with coaches, and looking through documentation but I do feel that a portion of WeWeb’s learning materials and guides always tie back to the basis of proper development which I never learned. I keep hitting snags and running into issues on this platform on questions that should be incredibly simple to answer. Are there even more elementary cohorts, groups, or communities I could join to get up to speed as soon as possible?
I don’t understand how to pull data from a page URL i.e. a user’s username getting their single user record and populating a profile page. I’d really love some sort of WeWeb academy or office hours program that teaches you and answers your questions.
To pull data from a page URL, you add a parameter to the page you want to show the data on.
You can then use it like so:
On the list view, you create an onclick action (where you want it) that changes the page to the detail page. In that action it will ask you for the parameter value for the page you are navigating to.
You can set the parameter value to be anything (it can be the value of another variable, the result of an API call, collection call or check against the user authentication… anything as it is very versatile)
Then on the detail page, you can pull that parameter value and use it how you want, again you can just display it, or you can use it in collection queries or other variables.
Also, could you make a list of similar questions for which you haven’t found the answers in the WeWeb Academy and other resources?
Providing you with the basics of programming is what we’re trying to do with the WeWeb Academy. There is a second course coming soon but if you feel you are struggling to build an MVP after watching level 1 in full, we’d love to know where the course isn’t clear and how we can improve it.
For example, your question made me think we could add a section in the " Add user auth & gate content" video to show you specifically how to bind the data of the current user on the page.
Would be awesome if we had an LLM scan the community.weweb.io to help people get answers easily.
Most companies have an AI assistant for that purpose, I reckon that this could be quite useful - community.weweb.io is somewhat of an echo chamber by moment (which I unfortunately contributed to, as a beginner myself).
User - “How can I bind something to something”?
“AI - Simple! Here’s how you do it, according to this thread [link] - Joyce also mentioned that the team is working on an easier method and should be out in a few weeks.”
Using Bing Chat I managed to pull some useful answers from the site, but it isn’t as straight forward.
We do have WeWeb Copilot that does that directly in the product actually. Some users have been testing the beta and the feedback has been very positive. We’re hoping to open that functionality to every one in June/July.
