Hy,
I’m heaving an odd problem here.
So I have a view of a Slice of the Projects Table, called - Projects in Production.
There is an automated Action displayed Overlay to Add Projects from this View.
However, in this automatically created button I can’t change what it does, so I make a new one by copying the Automatically created on, so I keep all settings (I just change the one I wanted - go to another view within this app).
However, this new button does nod appear next to the automatically created one.
I did add it in the slice Action Buttons:
I put the Icon to a football so it’s easy to distinguish the self made Action from the Automatically created one. So what I see is that the self made Action Button, appears if I go inside one of the Projects from the Slice:
I’m not sure what to do here. I want the Self Made button to replace the Automatically Created Button so that the Add New will take me to the Form I want … To the Automatically created button, I can’t specify that…
Any ideas?
Thank you,
Sorin
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I’m afraid that’s how it works. We are not very flexible with the Display overlay option.
I’m afraid that’s how it works. We are not very flexible with the Display overlay option.
Hmmm…but how come it works for the automatically created one and not for a new one?
The original is system created.
@Aleksi, may I ask something else then, maybe I can solve the issue that bugs me some other way.
So the thing is I made a view with all the Types of Projects (types of Projects have many Projects) and when clicked they go into a deck view of all Projects within that Type of Project.
(like a self made icon menu I learned from here: https://www.appsheet.com/samples/Example-of-how-to-make-a-gallery-view-of-clickable-icons?appGuidStr... )
Then, in this view there is the automatically created button to add new Projects.
But when I click it it takes me to a certain form (not sure how it chose that one but it doesn’t really matter). In that form, the first question is - What Type of Project is the new Project.
And you guessed it, I would like to have that auto-filled, because I said Add new Project from within a Type of Project View. And I’m not sure how to do that in this case.
I knew how to do it if I could write a formula in the Action Button menu, but I can’t in this automatically created one.
Is there some place else to add a formula to auto-fill the Type of Project part? Maybe in the Form or the Ref Project Type column from the Project table as initial value?
Thank you,
Sorin
@sorin_mihai If I understand correctly, in your Deck View, you want to replace the system generated “Add New” overlay button with one of your own. As @Aleksi has said, there currently is not a feature that allows this for the Deck View.
As a suggestion, what I have done to get around this, is create a View called “New” that is displayed as one of the main view icons across the bottom. Then hide the overlay button in the Deck View. See an example pic below.
Hy, it’s an idea but it wouldn’t really work in this case (many others I guess) because it would only address 3 of the 30 views you might have on an app … and occupy a bottom view space.
If I’ll manage something I’ll write it here as well.
Thank you
I see! Another possibility occurred to me (after reading subsequent post) that maybe is better for you.
Are you aware of the system generated views? You can access them and change them. For example, if you create a slice named “Mydata Slice”, use that in a Deck View, you will have automatically generated for you a view named “Mydata Slice_Form”. You can then modify this view to suit your needs. When you click the overlay button to add a new one, you are brought to this modified system view.
I hope it helps.
Well…not really.
I’ve made a bunch of slices that don’t automatically get the Form to them, but that’s not the point, because I can make the Form myself for that specific Slice. However, where in that Form do you tell it to have autocomplete on one column if you access the form from from a certain prior view? … I don’t think that the answer is in the Form View.
@sorin_mihai You would need to create your own LINKTOFORM deep link where you can prefill the value. Because you can’t show it as overlay button, you need to add it to your Deck view.
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