How To Use Custom Events In Bubble.io (Complete Guide)

In this complete guide, you’ll learn exactly how to streamline your workflows in Bubble by using custom events.
In simple terms, custom events are like reusable workflows; they allow you to build a workflow once, then reference that existing workflow whenever you need that event to occur. Custom events save you the time of having to manually rebuild repetitive workflows more than once.
Within this guide, you’ll learn everything there is to know about custom events. This includes 👇
1. The benefits of custom events
2. How to build a new custom event from scratch
3. How to edit an existing custom event
4. How custom events affect the sequence of workflow actions
5. How to send data within custom events using parameters
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⏱ Timeline: ⏱
00:00 - Course overview
00:31 - Benefits of custom events
04:01 - App preview
06:28 - How to create a custom event
11:41 - Editing an existing custom event
15:23 - Custom event workflow sequence
16:36 - Using parameters in custom events
21:57 - Additional insights

[@ricardomiranda7737]

Any chance you have a video that goes over how you setup the first two items in that workflow...

[@jason0ng]

Great video! Thank you

[@BuildingWithBubble]

Glad it could help ✌

[@arthurmorgan69]

Thank you very much mate, I appreciate your videos and how much work you put on it

[@BuildingWithBubble]

Thanks! It means the world to me to know they're helpful ✌

[@bongomackmedia8]

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[@jaguarconsultoriadigital8147]

Grateful

[@BuildingWithBubble]

I got you 😎

[@Lahiru_Ranaweera]

Great video! Let me add one more thing to it. Custom events can be used to run workflows based on conditions (Only when...).

[@BuildingWithBubble]

Thanks! And great tip 🙌

[@markeaston1628]

Nice one - many thanks! Also just to let folks know you can't reference a Custom Event if it's not also on the page you are creating a workflow for. However you can create the Custom Event on a reusable element and use the 'Trigger Custom Event from a Reusable Element'. I think that's way I read it.

[@BuildingWithBubble]

Great tip 👍

[@guilhermeviseu]

Muito bom, estou muito agradecido por este ensinamento, bem claro na apresentação e sem rodeios, parabéns

[@BuildingWithBubble]

Appreciate it! Always glad it can help

[@Achrafevodev]

Thank u, What if the elements (btn : follow) are in different pages (using reusable elements does work ?)

[@BuildingWithBubble]

Happy to try and help. Could you be more specific about what btn: follow is? If you're trying to send data between pages, I'd recommend using URL/page parameters. I have a tutorial that covers this in more detail here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/npCXf6yEbNR8mqs

[@Achrafevodev]

​@@BuildingWithBubble Thank you for your answer, I was talking about the Follow button that you used in this tutorial, and my question was if we assume that these buttons are on different pages, is there a way to not set the workflows twice?

[@BuildingWithBubble]

@@Achrafevodev Ahh yep, I see what you mean now. Yes, reusable elements are also a great tool for something like this.

[@jakbo_]

🤯

[@BuildingWithBubble]

🙏😎

[@JonAndoniBaranda]

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[@BuildingWithBubble]

Hey Jon, happy to try and help where I can. Feel free to shoot me an email at [e-mail] ✌

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[@ByronBennett]

You mention a couple times that all of the steps in the workflow run at the same time, but that doesn't seem possible if you can use the results of the previous step.

[@Erkki56]

Using data from the previous step also creates a dependency between steps and forces a sequence of actions in Bubble workflows.

[@ByronBennett]

@@Erkki56 Let's just say I was incredibly naive at how bad the problem of concurrency can be given different use cases. This has caused me hours and hours for "creative" workaround engineering.

[@Erkki56]

@@ByronBennett Sounds familiar, I have spent several hours of trying to be creative just to enforce dependency. One possible workaround is creating a separate workflow, which would be a Bubble API call. That separate API workflow can return a value, which you can use in the next step in your main workflow. This effectively enforces a dependency.