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      • Week Daily Availability Group
      • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Repeating Group
      • Dismissible Module
      • Video Group
      • About Group
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      • Full Width Map with Directions Link
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      • Drag and Drop Repeating Group
      • Infinite Columns Horizontal Scroll Data Table with Fixed First Column (Repeating Group)
      • Nested Data Table (Repeating Group)
      • Standard Data Table (Repeating Group)
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      • Infinite Columns Horizontal Scroll Data Table (Repeating Group)
      • Infinite Columns Horizontal Scroll Data Table (Table Element)
      • Activity Feed
      • Social Feed
      • Nested Repeating Group
      • Advanced Form Inputs Group
      • Reviews with Ratings Summary and Images
      • Reviews Repeating Group with User Images
      • Reviews (Text Only) Repeating Group
      • Standard Repeating Group with Image
      • Search Bar Group
      • Listing Details Group
      • Post Group with Upvoting UI
      • Large Chart Dashboard Widget
      • Chart With Key Metrics Dashboard Widget
      • 2-Column Table and Key Metrics Dashboard Widgets
      • 2-Column Large Metrics Dashboard Widgets
      • 4-Column Large Metrics Dashboard Widgets
      • Main Image with Thumbnails
      • Centered Profile Block
      • Left-justified Profile Block
      • Tile Image Gallery and Popup
      • Image Feed with Nested Comments Thread
      • 1-Column Standard Form Inputs Group
      • 2-Column Slideshow Tiles Repeating Group
      • 2-Column Repeating Group (Text, Link, Image, and Description)
      • 2-Column Repeating Group (Link, Text, and Button)
      • 2-Column Repeating Group with Actions
      • 2-Column Grid Tiles Repeating Group
      • 2-Column Form Group
      • 4-Column Tiles Repeating Group
      • Expiration timer
    • Popups
      • Edit Drawer
      • Map Location Details Drawer
      • Details and Comments Drawer
      • Confirmation Popup
      • Message Popup
      • Image Popup
      • Video Popup
      • Vertical Scroll Popup
      • Permissions popup
      • Multimedia Slideshow Popup
      • Edit Popup
      • Standard Form Popup
      • Subscribe Popup
      • Feedback / Contact Popup
      • Details Popup
      • Add List Popup
      • Advanced Form Popup
      • Rating Popup
      • Toggle Tabs Popup
      • Share Popup
      • Multi-Step Popup
      • Invoice Popup
      • Stripe Credit Card Purchase Popup
      • View Profile Popup
      • Send Message Popup
      • Multi-Select Pill Tabs Popup
      • Net Promoter Score (NPS) Popup
      • Pricing Plans Popup
    • Reusables
      • Multimage uploader
      • Sidebar_icontab
      • Doublesidebar_tab
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  • ⚙️ App Settings
  • App Variables
  • User
  • ⚙️ Email Template
  • ⚙️ Email Template Variant
  • ⚙️ Header
  • ⚙️ Navigation Item
  • ⚙️ Verify

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All objects and some selected fields in the template are explained below. Please refer to our document for guidance on how the Bubble database should be structured.

All data types and a few select fields are explained below. A good general rule to follow is that you shouldn't delete any fields that are included with the template and instead only add new ones.

⚙️ App Settings

This data type includes fields for all app-wide settings. Most of the data fields are controlled by the App admin from the Admin portal. There should only be a single object of this data type.

Field name

Type

Description

Ask for cookies?

yes / no

App Owner can control whether or not to ask users to accept cookies (if yes, a cookies banner will show on the homepage)

Email

text

Contact / support email that all emails in the application come from. Whenever a new email action is created in the application, it should refer to this field instead of being hardcoded

Email verification required?

yes / no

App owner can control whether or not to require users to verify their emails during the sign up process (if yes, users will receive an email that contains a verification link and they will need to click the link to verify their emails)

Name

text

Name of your app / website. This is the field that should be referenced anywhere where the name is used (instead of hardcoded).

App primary color

text

App and email template primary color

Usersnap off?

yes / no

This disables the Usersnap tool, which Airdev uses with its clients to submit feedback and bug reports.

App Variables

This data type is specifically for setting up custom app-wide variables for your project. Simply add fields as need and reference them from your pages by accessing the var - app variables

User

The user data type represents each person who has an account in your application.

Field name

Type

Description

Date agreed to terms and privacy docs

date

Date agreed to terms and privacy docs during sign up

Date signup completed

date

Date the user completed signup. This is populated upon sign up when the user signs up for an account by himself. If the user is invited to the app (e.g, app admin) then this is recorded when he first sets his password.

Inactive

yes / no

User is marked as inactive = yes when app admin deletes the user from the admin portal

Last login

date

Captures the last date that the user loaded any page in the app

Signup method

text

E.g., E-mail, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, or etc.

⚙️ Email Template

Email templates are managed from the admin portal and act as the main parent to manage email content for different scenarios

⚙️ Email Template Variant

The email template variant holds the email content for its parent Email template. When using multiple languages an email template will have multiple variants... one for each language.

Field name

Type

Description

Email template

⚙️ Email Template

Parent email template

Is active?

yes/no

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Language code

text

Language code for the language this variant represents

Language name

text

Display name of the variants language

Text body

text

Text to use as the body content for the email

Text button

text

Button text

Text signature

text

Text to include as the signature of the email

Text subject

text

Text to add to the subject line of the email

Used to verify a users email

⚙️ Header

We create one record for each header you create for your application

⚙️ Navigation Item

Contains all the code and metadata for an item such as a link, button, icon, etc that has been created for a footer or header element

⚙️ Verify

Stores the code data when a user is going through the verification process for their email, sms, or two-factor authentication.

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