The Bubble.io Toolbox Plugin | How to save a value from Javascript to Bubble | Bubble.io Tutorials

In this video coaching newsletter, I answer the following question from the Bubble forum:

"I’m using the Toolbox plugin and the JavascriptToBubble feature. For some reason I can’t store the value it publishes to the database. I can see the value in a text element or in a custom state so I know the value is there and working, it just won’t save the value to the DB.

Any help would be appreciated."

In the video I talk about javascript functions and how we can use the Javascript to Bubble element inside of the toolbox plugin.

[usmansabir]

Your tutorial is even helping people after a year. Hats off to you man

[drewarensberg]

DUDE thank you so much for making this I have been smacking my head against the desk for days trying to get the javascript element to work for me thank you!

[KathySierraVideo]

OMG I cannot thank-you enough for this. I'm new to Bubble and about ready to give up on it trying to figure out how to write my own functions. This -- the way it actually works -- is fairly simple and straightforward (now that you made this video) and NEVER would I have figured this out. It is 100% NOT intuitive... at least for a programmer. I had a hundred different ideas in my mind for how the hell to use this, and none of them were to have the element act as a 'function' with an argument that IS the 'value' you wish to use (somewhere else). It makes the "run javascript" part easy now that I know its entire job is to end up sending a value to that element, etc. But I was so focused on my "run javascript" RETURNING something rather than passing a value into a function call that is a function I never actually see except as the name of an element... OK I get it but, whew. In my perfect world, the workflow lets values propagate left to right in the Actions. So you could send the result of something to the NEXT action etc. But I guess this is not so bad. I'm afraid to ask my next question, which is ok what about accessing global variables as part of this... like what does "run javascript" actually have access to? [not expecting an answer, as this is an old post, so just THANK-YOU]

[Linksaw]

BRILLIANT! So insightful. Reducing what would take me hours to figure out (maybe I'd just give up) - took only 10 minutes with 2x speed. You're a great teacher Jacob!

[guyblueoceans]

very insightful! I'd definitely like to see more videos showing the power of javascript and/or CSS inside bubble!

[CuriousityExpress]

Best tutorial ever on Bubble related items - thanks fam

[anggaputra]

The second time I got the solution from this channel, great work! you're like the webdevsimplified channel for Bubble.io version

[mparkerbyrd]

Thank you! This video was super helpful and solved my problem.

[sitedev]

Thanks .... a well paced, well thought out instruction of what 'was' a complete mystery to me. I now have many windows of opportunity opening in my mind as to how useful this new knowledge is going to be.

[MatDev-bjid]

Such a great video ! SO insightful... Thank you VERY Much !!

[benoitcorvol]

Hello and thank's for the video it's very helpfull, it could be interesting if you do one maybe where you take a value type then the result could be another type ( in my case i would like to use date to calculate range time and save it as a number in the database)
Cheers ! i know you video is a bit old but still very helpfull

[aussiethinktank]

Thank you, this has answered a few questions. I am just starting out, and I utilising Javascript quite a bit. How do I use Javascript for triggers?

[denzeleiseb]

Hi J|dev. Thanks for the video. I would like to know how you would calculate an average of 3 inputs using the Toolbox plugin, that even if one input is empty it would still give the correct average of the 3 inputs that are not empty.
Thanks

[EIUeparseneau]

Great video. Thanks for the explanation.

[ramzieid]

Thank you! Quick question: how do you handle it if your JavaScript returns multiple different variables? (I.e seconds, minutes, days)

[EduardoLuizFerreira]

Could you show an example where i would capture a webcam image to record in Bubble´s database? Thanks!

[YayZ]

Thanks Jacob.
I want to create an event when someone press and hold on their messages to delete or something.
We would love to your video for that.

[salahtamimy]

Thank you very much, It helps me a lot and save my time, I have faced a problem when I assign const a bubble element's value, I kept getting "Syntax Error: Unexpected token ':' can you help?

[celobnguyen]

awesome!!! Do you know how we use other library with Toolbox plugin?
Thanks :D

[AshishMathpal]

Thanks a lot, your tip is really helpful. 👍