Can we have multiple datasets linked to the same collection?

[matthewtrip]

I am curious how to make something similar to Netflix homepage in Editor X. I can easily add a section header “Newest Release” and then a repeater underneath that’s layout is set to Slider. I can then connect this to a dataset linked to the collection called “Movies”.

BUT I am trying to add additional sections on the page below, like “Comedy” or “Action”, and I would like to reference the same collection but with a filter.

So I tried to do this by creating 3 datasets to the same “Movies” collection, but filtered one by a text field called “Category” where “Category” is “Newest Releases”, one where “Category” is “Comedy” and one where Category is “Action”.

When I test the page, all repeaters on the page show the same dataset, and all 3 repeaters actually show dataset1, then as dataset2 loads they all change, then as dataset3 loads they all change again.

Are we not allowed to have multiple datasets on the same page linking to the same collection?

I know if I split up my collection called “Movies” into three collections “Newest Releases” “Comedy” and “Action” that the three datasets work just fine. But 3 datasets referencing the same collection seems to not work. It could totally be a bug, or maybe the developers never intended more than one dataset to the same collection.

I know that I can place a table inside a repeater to mimic the examples of the artists/songs documentation, but thats not what I want - and I am using editor X anyway which doesn’t have tables yet. I really want the freedom to have multiple repeaters connected to multiple datasets that reference 1 collection. Is this possible?

Any ideas or feedback?

[yisrael-wix]

You can have multiple datasets, as many as you need. You need to connect each Dataset to a different Repeater. How have you connected the Datasets to the Repeaters? If you have code, then share it here in a code block so that we can see what you are doing.

[matthewtrip]

I didn’t try it with code yet, just the element binding… but I was posting in this Velo forum to see if it was possible because I was getting such weird results. Originally I tried to do a reaper inside a repeater, but I already learned this is not possible.

Here is the screenshot of what I tried, creating 3 different repeaters and 3 different datasets and setting a filter to each one of them. The filter part works great but all repeaters display the same thing even though they are bound to different datasets. I did see some irregularity as I would go in and double check which datasets were set in each repeater… eventually I got them all to have the right labels, but its funny, when the page loads you see each dataset briefly displayed (like a flicker) in sequential order and then stays with the data in the last loaded dataset. All repeaters and datasets have different ID’s, and I gave the datasets different names. I spent hours on this and nothing I do works.

But you have given me hope that maybe its just a glitch and with code it may work. I will go ahead and try loading the datasets by code AFTER the page loads and see… it could also just be a glitch in Editor X.