Cloud Backend (Cloud DB, API Builder)

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Add someone to my cloud backend

Rush Color — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:38:41 GMT

Could existing team members be given temporary or shared access credentials until new users can be added, or is there a way to manually create accounts for internal staff in the meantime? @color rush

[[qanda:topic_solved]] A column with enum type

Nimesh Topiwala — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:00:20 GMT

@joseph-benguira Thank you! I already achieved my goal with "Linked field (by value)" and in DB editor when add a row, I see a dropdown of those options I defined into another table.

[[qanda:topic_solved]] FortiGuard Intrusion Prevention - Access Blocked

Joseph Benguira — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 11:16:12 GMT

Hey @mesopotamia-film
Fortiguard is an enterprise firewall that will block access to some websites based on enterprise policies.

You have to contact the IT of your network to request whitelisting of your domain
It seems there is a link to click on your screenshot to request evaluation and whitelisting 😉

Bug: Updating company columns when time field exists

Daniel Mulroy — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 12:22:02 GMT

Hello team,

Bug:
When adding a column to a table with a time field that has an existing default value, the alteration fails.

Expected behavior:
It should work

Problem:
When rendering the default value for the time field, the number is formatted for humans. I.e. 110000 becomes 11:00:00 in the UI.

However, when altering the table, your code is performing an UPDATE query that tries to set 11:00:00 as the default value for a TIME type column, which fails.

Workaround:
Manually editing 11:00:00 to 110000 before saving your changes to the table causes the update to succeed.

@Joseph-Benguira

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Rate limits and external sql databases

Joseph Benguira — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 07:14:28 GMT

Hey @daniel-mulroy, yes that's correct.
The alternative would be to connect directly to your external DB from the cloud function using an NPM package

[[qanda:topic_unsolved]] Filtering by number of days ago not working?

Daniel Mulroy — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:42:12 GMT

@joseph-benguira

It's the dropdown menu found by clicking the "filter" button on CloudDB

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Category to reuse functions

Pierre — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:19:26 GMT

Hello @joseph-benguira
Perfect it works like a charm now ^^

Thanks a lot !
Best regards,

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Database import

Joseph Benguira — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 19:10:48 GMT

@nicolas-flam it's not possible to undo an import, but you can restore the whole database to a previous version from Cloudbackend dashboard, for example with the previous day version

FYI import will add all the rows from your csv file, not just the new ones

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Bug on the phone version

Katya Nakache 0 — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 08:48:04 GMT

@joseph-benguira 👍

[[qanda:topic_solved]] WHMCS

Joseph Benguira — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 23:10:16 GMT

Hey Amir,
This is a serverless platform based on AWS infrastructure. So it's not possible to install WHMCS on Appdrag

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Scheduled Function not running....?

Daniel Mulroy — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 22:59:21 GMT

@joseph-benguira

Solved... and I think I know why, very edge case 🙂

I had a callback at the very end of my function handler, after a bunch of async/await stuff.

Lambda has a context object:
"callbackWaitsForEmptyEventLoop"

From their docs:
"Set to false to send the response right away when the callback runs, instead of waiting for the Node.js event loop to be empty. If this is false, any outstanding events continue to run during the next invocation."

Anyway, removing the callback at the end of the function worked. I think lambda was executing the callback without waiting for the inner await'd functions to finish, which killed the running processes and prevented the updates from happening.

Does "Try" run with a different context object than a scheduled function?

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Searching in huge listing with Cloud DB UI

Nazem SAMAD — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 11:07:54 GMT

Hi @jbenguira, perfect and thank you for your answer. 😉

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Protection with WAF

Mody Ibrahim — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 17:28:04 GMT

Very useful answers. Thank you!

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Protection from DoS?

Mody Ibrahim — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 11:03:09 GMT

@jbenguira Thank you very much! I'll do that then.

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Direct Access to SQL databases

jbenguira — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 17:05:22 GMT

@dick-honing the only access to the db is through the API (for security reasons)

But there is another option!
When you are in Cloud backend dashboard, click on database, from there you can connect to an external mysql server (can be AWS RDS or any MySQL server)

And of course since it's your own MySQL server you can have a direct access to it with the MySQL protocol 😉

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Free tier

kuk kuk — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 04:48:52 GMT

@jbenguira that is excellent - thank you

[[qanda:topic_solved]] External API Call

Riichard Moore — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 23:27:21 GMT

@riichard-moore I get it now LOL.

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Charts View?

jbenguira — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 18:17:58 GMT

@pablo-garcia we do have a tutorial here on how to create data visualization with Highcharts and Cloudbackend:
https://support.appdrag.com/doc/Using-highcharts-library

Postman Collection v2

Pierre SULPICE — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 14:03:10 GMT

@joseph-benguira Cool, hit me up when it's done ^^

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Cache isn't working?

jbenguira — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 15:33:47 GMT

@thomasd nop, not all headers are making the cache vary, and most users will use chrome, safari or Firefox

[[qanda:topic_solved]] why is the function LAST_INSERT_ID() not working for me

malky shlomowith — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 17:23:11 GMT

Thank you !!!

This was a big help!!

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Searchable list using Cloud Backend / API Functions

Joseph Benguira — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 08:16:22 GMT

Hey @Karol-W

"Data source Cloud Backend" is to configure which datasources are loaded on the page (don't load too many or your page will be slow)
"Triggers ->Cloud Backend" is to configure an action that will call a cloud backend function

Dynamic datasources are useful to generate pages based on url parameters, they are useless for this kind of interaction you want to do here.
So I would recommend you to remove that data source and replace it with a regular API call instead
We have more tutorials about generating dynamic content without dynamic datasources here: https://support.appdrag.com/doc/Creating-Dynamic-content-using-Factory
https://support.appdrag.com/doc/Creating-Dynamic-content-using-Visual-Factory

here you have a dropdown and you want to change the gallery content when the dropdown value is changed, so you should write some jquery code to capture the change on that SELECT dropdown $( "SELECT[name='YourSelectNameHere']" ).change(function() { var newVal = $("SELECT[name='YourSelectNameHere']").val() //Call your function to load data from the api and display it });

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Try button is not working

malky shlomowith — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:43:04 GMT

Thanks! you saved the day!

Dynamically create page?

jbenguira — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 16:49:10 GMT

@anu-mathews

we have a textual tutorial here about this:
https://support.appdrag.com/doc/Dynamic-Data-Sources

and also a video tutorial here about the same topic:
https://academy.appdrag.com/FullStack-with-cloud-backend-Episode-5.html

[[qanda:topic_solved]] Link SQL dropdown with other table?

Joseph Benguira — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 10:02:49 GMT

@thomasd it's displayed in the auto generated API function documentation (when you are editing a cloud function, click on Documentation on the right side)

[[qanda:topic_solved]] fileSaveUploaded issue (appdrag-cloudbackend node package)

Joseph Benguira — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 10:01:45 GMT

@undefined Done, marked as solved 😉