How can I efficiently populate 800+ form fields in Memberstack without manual entry? Answered

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  Josh Lopez

  • January 10, 2024 16:56

  Hey James Daniel

  Thank you for posting. For your use case I would suggest using member json to save a collection of guests instead of custom fields. There is a limit of 100 custom fields but no limit for JSON currently. This will require some custom coding though.

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  James Daniel

  • January 10, 2024 17:02

  Hey Josh Lopez thanks for getting back 

  Yeah thats what Memberstack said, I never coded for member.json before so don't know where to start. Would you know how to do this? I very good at knowing how to adapt and edit, it the start am lost with of how to add 

  If yes, can you help please?
  Thanks 

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  Josh Lopez

  • Edited January 10, 2024 17:25

  I personally can't help you with custom code unfortunately. We do have an active community on slack that may have someone who can help though. Doing a quick convo with our Rey ai I was able to get this info which should be a good start:
  
  

  To update a member's JSON data, including a list of guests, you can use the updateMemberJSON method provided by Memberstack's JavaScript (DOM) package. This method allows you to update the JSON data associated with a member's profile.

  Here's an example of how you might use the updateMemberJSON method to update a member's list of guests:

  <script>
  const memberstack = window.$memberstackDom;
  let memberId;
  
  memberstack.getCurrentMember().then(({ data: member }) => {
      if (member) {
          memberId = member.id;
          updateGuestList(memberId);
      }
  });
  
  async function updateGuestList(memberId) {
      const memberData = await memberstack.getMemberJSON(memberId);
      const guests = memberData.data.guests || [];
      const newGuest = {
          name: "Jane Doe",
          starter: "Garden Salad",
          main: "Ribeye Steak",
          dessert: "Chocolate Mousse"
      };
      const updatedGuests = [...guests, newGuest];
  
      const updatedMemberData = {
          ...memberData.data,
          guests: updatedGuests
      };
  
      const result = await memberstack.updateMemberJSON({ json: updatedMemberData });
      const finalMemberData = await memberstack.getMemberJSON(memberId);
      console.log(finalMemberData);
  }
  </script>

  In this example, we first retrieve the current member's JSON data using getMemberJSON. We then access the guests array from the member's JSON data, append a new guest object to it, and update the member's JSON data with the new list of guests using updateMemberJSON.

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  James Daniel

  • January 10, 2024 17:40

  Hello, Thank you Josh Lopez for the additional help, hopefully I can work it out or find a developer that can polish it off
  Have a lovely night :) 

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