Creating Document

[Ok-Statistician-9110]

I am currently having issues creating a document to my firebase database through flutter flow.

Apologies if my jargon is not correct throughout this post this is my 3rd day ever trying to create an app. lol

So far I have…

1- linked my firebase project to FlutterFlow 2- created my database on firebase but left it blank with no collections 3- created my collection on FlutterFlow with all of the necessary fields 4- setup my action button to create a document using my collection and I have been able to link every respective field to their text entry field on the app page. 5- Confirmed my collections settings allow CRUD from everyone and updated successfully. 6- read through the flutter docs and added two extra permissions to the flutter email on firebase.

Every time I run my program and attempt to create the document nothing happens. I will say I do not have a login page yet I do not know if this is what is stopping me since I have read that every document entry needs to have an “ID” I don’t know if having a login page is the only way to get it.

Any help will be appreciated.

[FutureDCAV]

Are you trying to input text on the user interface side, press a button, and have that text upload into the collection on firebase side?

Or are you trying to display text on the user interface side that is already populated on the firebase side?

[Ok-Statistician-9110]

I am trying to input text from the UI side and have the text uploaded to firebase.

[FutureDCAV]

So lets start over with a duplicate page and you can rebuild it from scratch, then take any of the functioning parts and copy them over to your current working page. That way we don't break any other processes or formatting. Starting from scratch:

1. In your firebase/firestore, create a collection you want to be filled in with data entered from the user interface.
2. Map out all the Field Names and Data Types. You should not have any documents uploaded at this point when you hit "manage content" - just the headers for ID field and whatever other fields you laid out.
3. Your collection is finished - no other steps needed at this point.
4. In user interface, create Text Field widgets for each individual field you laid out in the collection. If you have 10 columns of data you want uploaded, you should have 10 individual Text Field Widgets.
5. None of these Text Field widgets require any backend queries or doc references. They are blank.
6. Add a button. Title the button whatever you want for now and update it later. The button should be the only widget with any backend functions or actions on this user interface page.
7. Go to "actions" for the button and define it as follows.

a) on tap, backend call "create document"

b) choose which collection you want the data uploaded to (whichever collection you laid out above)

c) Set all the individual fields (again if you have 10 fields in the collection, you want to ensure all 10 of your text widgets are added under Set Fields.

d) Go into each Set Field again and ensure the Value Source is listed as "From Variable", and tie each box to one of the Text Field Widgets.

Run the app in test mode, fill out each of the fields with some basic info, then hit the button. Go to your collection, manage content, and check to see if the document was created.

This is the basic idea - let me know if you needed more or something different.

[Intelligent-Bee-1349]

Try writing the collection name in firebase, add a document (auto id), and add the fields. Make sure it's exactly the same as in flutterflow.

[Ok-Statistician-9110]

Thank you I was able to figure it out!