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

James Daniel asked January 10, 2024 14:35

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Hello Everyone Hope someone can help

I made a 2min video to explain. Need a way to enter fields better when its going to be in the 100s
Memberstack help can't help me even though it can be done, so hopefully someone in the community can help, pretty please
https://capture.dropbox.com/oe62Bn5QCdmmOVBC

Thanks, James

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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 OP 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.

James Daniel OP 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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