Algolia - Firebase and >3 Collections >3 Index's - How ? - Solved

Hello,

I just went through and added Algolia to test it out with a single "collection". Great but lets more to a real use case and then it's convoluted.

Our use case is a Flutterflow application with >3 collections each with an index (Firebase with Algolia)

However, the terminology and use of plural/singular doesn't make sense.

FlutterFlow has an APPLICATION (Singular) with Firebase COLLECTIONS (plural) where you may need INDCIES (plural)
Firebase has an ALGOLIA EXTENTION (Singular) tied to a singular COLLECTION and INDEX in its configuration (per setup as shown below)

You can have ONLY 1 Extension per Firebase Project

Then in Algolia, it becomes plural & in FlutterFlow under App Settings you can select collections (plural) to "search"

Questions

1 - How to add a second collection/index?

2 - The single Algolia extension is the primary trigger for a collection "settings" and then in the Algolia Dashboard you can have >1 Application and many Indices per Application - How to have different settings per Index?

Thank you for any advice and help.

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