I want users in My app to Follow other users to get notifications from thier post
And i also want users to see thier followers hiw do i go about this
Any Ideas
Assuming your users can see each other’s profiles:
Make a new boolean column on the profile called “Follow this user” or something similar. Make it user specific, and use a switch for the user to select “Follow”
To be able to see the list of people you follow, all you need is an inline list pointed at the profiles or user pages, and filter it like this:
As far as seeing who is following you, I haven’t worked that out, but I don’t need to. I just wanted to be able to follow certain people, not see who was following me.
Thanks a lot
do you think there is a way via form and maybe relations
There may be, but I wasn’t going to spend any time on it because I didn’t need it.
It Was pretty simple
I created a following sheet with only two columns followers email and person who is following mail in glide i created a form( on my profiles tab) writing to that following sheet i created then i took the users mail and a column value with the email of the user he wants to follow so all the user does is click submit
Then in my data editor i created a relation(not set to match multiple) relating thier mails to their profiles for the follower then a lookup value for the followers name and image
then on the profiles sheet i add an inline list showing the following sheet and i filtered it that following mail is screen mail and bam it is done
@Jeff_Hager if you read my solution i have a problem i do not want a user to follow another user more than once
i forgot. to unfollow i used a link to screen action linking to the following sheet
I added an inline list filtered by follower email is signed in user then the user will click on the person he wants to unfollow use the pencil then delete
Check out the solution here. You can either use the isFavorites column, or use a new user specific column, like @Tim_Sullivan shows. Either way should give you the same result without the need for a separate sheet.:
How do you notify users about new posts of people they follow?
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i do not know of a way of notifying mainly because we are basically filtering a list
Nice post. Could you do a screen shot for this:
1 then i took the users mail and a column value with the email of the user he wants to follow so all the user does is click submit
2 Then in my data editor i created a relation(not set to match multiple) relating thier mails to their profiles for the follower then a lookup value for the followers name and image
Thank you.
Did you you mean to put “FellowVendor is not empty”? My list of followers on the user’s profile page goes empty when that happens. But when I say “Follow-- is empty” the list appears.
Have you figured out a work flow for finding users before a user is able to follow them?
thx.
Nope, I wrote what I meant. I can’t speak to why you got the results you did, but I only wanted to follow those that were checked.
As for figuring out a work flow: I wasn’t going to spend any time on it because I didn’t need it.
After you set up the column in data, how does the user check those users who he/she wishes to follow? thx.