Creating Collections
A Collection is a group of documents. For example, you could have a users collection that contains a list of documents, each representing a single user.
User collection document model
Before getting started with this section:
Here are the steps to create a collection:
- Click on the Firestore from the Navigation Menu (left side of your screen).
- Click on the (+) Plus sign button.
- A popup will appear, enter the collection name and click Create Button.
Creating Collection
A document represents a single item, or entity such as a user, post, animal, etc. To add data inside the document, you must define the document schema by creating Fields. Creating Fields helps you know what kind of data a document can contain.
Although you can add more fields later on, it's always a good idea to add fields in the first place.
Field Names can not be changed, so it's always good to double-check that you have used the correct Field Names.
To define the schema (create Fields) for the document:
- Select your collection from the list on the left side.
- If you haven't added any fields yet:
- You can choose from the template collections that have common fields needed in most applications. This will auto-add all the fields.
- Or click on Start from scratch to define your own schema.
- To add a new field, start typing its name (e.g., title, description, date, etc.) and choose the suitable Data Type.
- While choosing the Data Type, you can set if it will be a list or not using Is List? toggle.
- You can keep it disabled for storing only a single value. For example, fields such as title, description, price, etc., can have only one value. You can't have multiple titles for a single post.
- You can enable it to store multiple values of the same data type. For example, to store the list of accessory names for the field accessories.
- Click on the Done icon.
Define schema (creating Fields)
The following data types are available within FlutterFlow:
- String: To store plain text such as title, description, etc.
- Integer: To store numbers such as 100, 4302, 50000, etc.
- Double: To store a decimal number such as 12.43, 3233.50, 65.5666, etc.
- Photo Path: To store the URL of the uploaded image.
- Video Path: To store the URL of the uploaded video.
- Audio Path: To store the URL of the uploaded audio.
- Boolean: To store either a true or false value.
- Timestamp: To store date and time value.
- Lat Lng: To store the latitude and longitude of a particular place. Storing the Lat Lng value helps you locate a place in Google Maps.
- Color: To store the color value.
- Document Reference: To store a reference of a document. Storing a reference helps you fetch the document data.
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