JoeSepielli
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4 years ago I agree. I migrated my app to ThunkableX and airtable from AppInventor and google fusion tables. The get rows where seems like an ideal solution. I have a kludge workaround that works for me now.
Airtable is a great way to deliver data from an online database. There is no way to dynamically filter the data you want to see (there is a great way to use static filters with "views").
Why is this useful? A great way to improve airtable is working with linked fields (have a look at the introduction for linked fields "https://support.airtable.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021502354"). If you ask the content for a linked field, you do not get the data, but an ID. This ID has to be queried in the linked table and this calls for loops. It would be much easier to ask directly for the suitable row.
The solution I'd like I would suggest two new functions:
"GetRowsWhere" could have the ability to use wildcards (regular expressions): -- rowName (for example "Address") -- filter (for example "ain street") and it has the following outputs: -- "error" and "value". Value is a list of objects with all rows that match the filter (or empty if applicable).
It could be even more interesting if we have as many inputs as columns in the table.
Alternatives: As an alternative I have to filter the results from "GetAllRows" inside ThunkableX with a loop which takes time.
Platform: ThunkableX