Buttons on the form grid

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Hi,

I have a fair idea about the need to isolate the buttons in the action area and have them driven by the form settings and not the form field metadata.

However, the following are reasons to have buttons inside the form layout;

  1. In complex forms is gets crazy having all the buttons grouped in once place.
  2. It makes it user-friendly to put the button next to the area of the form that it pertains to.
  3. Having the button on the form makes it more prominent for the user to see and use.
  4. Buttons on the form could then also have other attributes and use such as font, color, used with conditional formating, etc.

Suggested implementation/architecture:

  • Don’t replace the current action buttons but compliment them. Simply allow buttons like “text description” fields and have them point to the existing action buttons.
  • This way buttons are still made and managed the same way and you just point the form button to replicate as if the user clicked the action button doing a …click() on the element pointed to.
  • Buttons are treated as text descriptions so do not affect the data structure or anything else it is just a visual element.

I hope the above makes sense especially the suggest implementation not knowing the Ragic backend myself.

Thanks for always listening to the community and giving us airtime. The Ragic team rocks.

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Hi,

I like this idea of putting action buttons in the spreadsheet grid. But what we need to do first is to come up with a simple and friendly UI for users to specify that which of their action button needs to be put in which cell. I will keep you posted.

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Thank you for always listening to the community.

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Nice.
This is one of the things that I miss from Microsoft Access.
Hope you can come up with a nice UI for the buttons.

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I like this idea as well and hope for an early implementation.

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Hi,

Just another vote for this feature- I’d love to be able to have the buttons in the relevant place int he record and formatted appropriately.

Thanks,

Terri

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This is what the forms could look like if we had this.

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I think a good approach might be to add a “component” that is “action button”, you drag that to where-ever you want the button, then a pop-up asks you to select an existing created action to link it to, and then what to name the button on the page.

Even if the button isn’t super customizable, I think this would go a long way over sifting through a drawer stuffed full of different actions.

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agreed this functionality would add function comparable to other platforms!

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