Action in Form View

[Fabian_Weller]

Can we use Action Buttons in Form Views? The official answer is: No. Here is an example.

But I found a way how we can use Actions inside a Form View. It uses Slices and the SelfRef-Method.
You can find the sample app in my Portfolio "Action in Form".
Note: This does not work with the new Desktop mode or the new mobile framework.

Here is a Gif to show how it works. The 2 inline views (table and deck) are the same. Just to show how it looks in table or deck view.

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With an Input Action set as Row Selected Event Action, you can even open the item and edit it:

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This is a simple sample that works on 2 Tables: Orders and Items. But under the SelfRef you could also add a Virtual Column to open the detail view to third table and use actions to change values in that third table. I use this method in a productive app.

Here are 2 other methods to add action-like behavior in a form view:

• https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/AppSheet-Q-A/Adding-Buttons-to-Form-View/m-p/376327/highligh...
• https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/AppSheet-Q-A/Trigger-action-when-press-button-in-Form-view/m...

[Suvrutt_Gurjar]

Very innovative @Fabian_Weller 

Thank you very much. 

[leonsteber]

This is really cool Fabian, gonna borrow some of these ideas, thank you for sharing.

I find it interesting that the Related items inline view has a "New" under it when in the form view, but it has "View" & "Add" in the detail view. I got confused, thinking somehow you'd overridden something, but it seems it's just normal behaviour...

[Fabian_Weller]

Hi @leonsteber you are right - this is funny. I just created a new app just to test: In Detail View it is called "Add", in Form View it is called "New".
Workaround: Via Localize we can name both the same.

@AleksiAlkio is this intended?