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Anyone with template or thoughts on how to emulate a Forum App with Glide? Could be something like this forum or even more basic.

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Thatā€™s a great idea!

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@Jeff_Hager any thoughts on this?

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Hi! How about setting it up like Instagram posts except without the pictures. You could create a ā€œTopicsā€ choice field so that users can categorize their posts and then use the Comments component so that people can reply to the original post. I think Iā€™m going to add this function to my app.

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Iā€™d probably suggest the same thing. You could probably step it up a bit more and assign a unique id to the original post, then use a form button to replay and create a new list item, but with the original post id passed through the form. Lots of ways to do this, but a comments component would be the simplest.

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Thought about doing this way, but then would be a little to limited by only comments in text not being able to post answers with video or photos. Check what iā€™ve done so far: https://bhdzc.glideapp.io/

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Tks for answering! Do you mean something a little like this https://bhdzc.glideapp.io/ ? Itā€™s still a sketch but I believe could work. I did two different but similar ways there. Would be nice to not have to use an image with the Tiles or Cards layouts but I guess itā€™s possible to use something like what I did. Appreciate any tips or advices!

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So, I just did mine this morning. Here are the screenshots.

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Nicely done!

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Thank you!

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Hi! I like the implementation. Question: How do you get the profile pic of the poster to show as a small thumbnail like that? It looks like an action text component but I didā€™t know it had an option for an image. Thanks for your help!

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Looks like a list layout on an inline list.

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Hmmm. Got it. That makes sense. I do that in Adalo but wasnā€™t aware that nested lists were possible in Glide. Iā€™ll look into it. Thanks!

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Check out my forum template to see if it meets your needs:

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Thanks Robert! I like it. I may purchase-there are a few things youā€™re doing in the template that I want to apply. Appreciate it!

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Hi Robert, itā€™s great!
I want to get it, since my (work in progress) app needs one forum.
Before purchasing it, I am wondering how to ā€œmoveā€ your template to my existing app? I suppose that I need to re-do everything, but is there a lot of work to do in the DataEditor?

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Yaā€¦thereā€™s a bit youā€™d have to do to get it to work identically. Not too complicated though. Want a peek behind the scenes first?

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Iā€™ve purchased it, and if Iā€™m lost, Iā€™ll shout out for helpā€¦

By the way, I just had a very quick look, and in case you make a v2, some fuel for thoughts:

  • the use of Cloudinary (and with your account) may be an issue for relatively newbies
  • an arrayformula is #REF (sheet ā€˜Postsā€™), while seems to display results; Iā€™ll have a look later

Thanks