Data Structure For Creating a Client Side Array of Contacts

Wappler General Need Help
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My app allows users to create a list of Contacts via various searches, and then choose a set of actions on those contacts, such as sending them an email.

I’m a bit unclear about how to create the data structure to do this.

So far I have created an array of numbers called Contact List and used Add Unique to add the id of a chosen contact to the list.

With that I have created a repeat block which allows me to display… well, with my current knowledge, only the id values!

Is there a way I can access more useful information about the contact in this repeat, or do I need to create a more complex data structure that somehow gets initialised with fields such as first_name, last_name… when I do the Add Unique?

Thanks in anticipation!
Antony.

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Do you just need this additional info to be displayed on the page (just for the user)?
And on the server side you only need the IDs, right?

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I guess so…
On the server side I will need the email addresses to send the emails through Postmark…

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You can use the array values to filter a database query and show the results on the page, same for your send email - get the results of the filtered query.

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I’m a bit unclear about the details of how to do that in the repeat, but I’ll have a play and see if I can work it out!

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You just need a server action with database query, filtered by the array items.
Then you create your repeat, which shows the details on the page out of this query, not using the array :slight_smile: