How do I write/update data to multiple child nodes via Firebase Cloud functions?

Question

I\'ve got a database that looks like this:

I want to reset the Patient_List and Current_Token children to 0 at a particular time (

Answer 1

It's not possible to have a single update statement affect a child of all database nodes under some location. You will have to iterate all the nodes (by querying/reading them somehow), then update each one that you find. This is potentially a costly operation in terns of bandwidth.

Answer 2

Only use the general ref, and before that reference all nodes that you want to update, just like this:

var gralRef = firebase.database().ref();
var obj_update={};                              
obj_update[`users/${firstuser}/name`]='John';
obj_update[`users/${seconduser}/name`]='Mark';
obj_update[`users/${seconduser}/address`]='New York';   


gralRef.update(obj_update);