Quickstart Guide
How to quickly and easily get started with the template
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How to quickly and easily get started with the template
Last updated
Our Canvas template includes a fully functional homepage maker. App owners can manage and customize their homepage content from the Owner’s Portal without needing to modify the app index page through the Bubble editor.
To set up your homepage:
Go to your app (https://bubble.is/page?id=**YOURAPPNAME**\)
Click on the Data tab > App data tab > Users data object
Click run as next to the user [email protected] (any user that has the Owner field as yes will be able to access the Owner’s Portal page)
On the Owner’s Portal page, click on the Homepage tab to customize your homepage content
For more information on how to setup your homepage, click here.
This template does not use Bubble’s native “send email” functionality, but instead it uses an API workflow that generates a nicely-formatted HTML email from SendGrid.
To set up your email:
Navigate to SendGrid and sign up for a free account
Once you are in the SendGrid dashboard, click on the Settings tab > API keys tab
Select Create API key > General API key and fill out the subsequent form
Save your API key somewhere (you will not be able to view it again)
Go to your app (https://bubble.is/page?id=**YOURAPPNAME**\)
Go to the Plugins tab > API connector > SendGrid API > Expand send email API call
Under Headers enter the following:
Key: Authorization | Value: Bearer yourapikey | Private
Key: Content-Type | Value: application/json | Private
To update the admin email for the app:
In run-mode, go to the owner's portal
From the IDENTITY tab, find the input for "ADMIN EMAIL"
Update this with the relevant email address and save your changes
You can easily add fully responsive pages and blocks to your app by registering your app with our Canvas chrome extension. Because this template was built before the most recent updates to the Canvas Base Template and the extension, we will need to register your app manually in order for you to use the Canvas chrome extension. To register your app:
Please send an email to us at [email protected] with your email and Bubble app ID. We will then manually register the app with Canvas for you to use our Canvas chrome extension to add page templates and blocks from our library.
You will be able to add new blocks and page templates to your app. The extension will prompt you to update your app styles and add the new styles to your app for you. This will not impact any existing pages or blocks in your app.
The page builder (for marketing pages) will not be available to Canvas apps created before 12/29/2020
When you first access this template, you will be viewing the Development version of the database. While this database version is sufficient for designing, building, and testing your application, it is highly recommended that you deploy all app updates to live and migrate your development database to the production database before launching your app with real users.
When viewing your application's data (through Data > App data in the Bubble editor), it is critical that your data view matches the version of your app that you are examining. To switch views between the Development and Production database, simply click the red "Switch to Live" (or "Switch to Dev.") button in the top right.
After you initially deploy your app to live, please copy over the development database to the production version.
While its not critical to migrate every piece of test data to the live version, there are certain data types (and instances of those data types) that are necessary to retain in both versions for various reasons
Because of this, it is highly recommended that you copy over the entire database and then delete certain bits of test data that are not needed
In any case, there are a few data types you'll want to make sure you've copied over
Each database version should include exactly one instance of the Website data type
If you want to retain the ability to customize your homepage, make sure you've copied over all 11 entries for the Homepage block data type
Similarly, if you want to retain the specific blocks of content you've configured for the homepage, make sure you've copied over all entries for the Block entry data type
To copy over database versions, click the red "Copy and restore database" button in the top right.
From this modal, select the option for Copy development data into the live database
Next, choose All types
After you've made sure you've selected the appropriate options, type in the requested text and click to confirm the migration
Groups on the same page should be stacked vertically (not overlapping)
Use Canvas app reusables elements to reduce redundancy in workflows
Store results of URL parameters, search results that to be referenced in multiple places, or calculation results based on an input on the page in the “Hidden variables” popup on each page
Privacy rules need be to set up for all new objects created
