# JSON - Structure Help

**URL:** <https://community.parabola.io/t/json-structure-help/720>\
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**Created:** [June 22, 2020, 10:48pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/json-structure-help/720 "2020-06-22T22:48:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![EB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@EB](https://community.parabola.io/u/EB)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 10:48pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/json-structure-help/720/1 "2020-06-22T22:48:27Z")

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Hello,

I’m using Parabola to send a list to my Bubble app using an API Export. I have setup the endpoint however I need to format the JSON body within the export. I’m making a POST request.

Data format: [https://gyazo.com/96b8b047cb887fd470191542058faa70](https://gyazo.com/96b8b047cb887fd470191542058faa70)  
Currently body setup: [https://gyazo.com/6ec5ec0ee983fd52a582f6c830ada00a](https://gyazo.com/6ec5ec0ee983fd52a582f6c830ada00a)

Currently the body linked above only returns the very first domain in the column. How should I write the body so it will return the whole list?

Thank you

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**Author:** ![EB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@EB](https://community.parabola.io/u/EB)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/json-structure-help/720/3 "2020-06-23T22:27:38Z")

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Still looking for a solution to this!

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**Author:** ![sachi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.parabola.io/sachi/32/10_2.png) [@sachi](https://community.parabola.io/u/sachi)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/json-structure-help/720/4 "2020-06-24T16:36:39Z")

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Hi @EB - If I’m understanding your issue correctly, it sounds like you need to wrap the column name in curly braces `{ }` and pass that in the Body instead of the specific value.

I think it’ll make more sense if you can post a screenshot of how your API Export is currently configured, and what the data you’re trying to export looks like.

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**Author:** ![Mateus\_Coelho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Mateus\_Coelho](https://community.parabola.io/u/Mateus_Coelho)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 12:11pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/json-structure-help/720/5 "2021-02-22T12:11:40Z")

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Hi @sachi , I am having a similar issue in the sense that when I send a list to bubble (current JSON is “All Issues”: [“All Issues”] ) though bubble does understand that as a list, the items are not entering the database as individual items.

Ex: Let’s say in a particular row there are multiple items which are: Out of Stock, Missing Image. Instead of bubble understanding them as 2 individual issues (which should be the case), it understands it as 1 issue named Out of Stock, Missing Image.

So the question is: When sending from Parabola, how do I make bubble understand that items after the comma, are individual items and not part of a sentence ?

Does that make sense ? Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![daniel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.parabola.io/daniel/32/732_2.png) [@daniel](https://community.parabola.io/u/daniel)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/json-structure-help/720/6 "2021-02-22T21:29:35Z")

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Hi @Mateus_Coelho,

The way your JSON is currently set up, you’re sending a single list to the `All Issues` field as an array of strings.

If Bubble is supposed to interpret those as individual items, you’ll need a separate field for each issue.

Taking a look at [their forums,](https://forum.bubble.io/t/create-list-of-things-from-api-im-stuck/47932) it seems that some users have a separate workflow that saves each item as a separate item before calling each of those items into a single list with individual list items.

If those items already exist in a separate database, you may be able to pass those item ids in directly, not the literal string of the item.
