Available for copy: Newest form choice, progress bars & joined texts concept

[ThinhDinh]

I suppose you can do that with the right conditions for the rich text

[raghav_khandelwal]

@Manan_Mehta

I have come across this problem in some of my apps, I usually put a text entry component down in the bottom without a header and make it required but make sure it’s hidden out of sight to avoid this from happening. Still not the best practice

Hey @Manan_Mehta, How do you make sure it is out of sight?

[Darren_Murphy]

Just use a filter condition on something that you know will never be true.

[raghav_khandelwal]

Hey @Darren_Murphy, Wish you a very Happy Birthday!
Tried that but than Submit sign is enabled as the text entry is filtered out.

[Darren_Murphy]

oh yeah… haha sorry, my bad. Didn’t think that one through

Okay, so I guess what @Manan_Mehta is saying is if you put a Text Entry component at the bottom of the screen with no Title and no Placeholder, it will just appear as a horizontal line at the bottom, so users may not even notice it. You could set it to write to a dummy User Specific column, just in case somebody puts something in it.

Not a great solution, but would work.

Personally, I just prefer to create my own forms - then you don’t have this problem as you have more control. I suspect that if @ThinhDinh was to re-create this app now, he’d probably do the same thing

[Manan_Mehta]

User Experience Revamped with Custom Actions!

I tried using various actions to improve the workflow in one of my apps Pluhg and it works so beautifully. It has completely redefined the user experience and will probably make more users stick to the app because of its ease. I have said this multiple times before that the Actions in Glide are the most powerful feature upgrade yet! And they are just beginning!!

This is how I do the same thing now with Actions

[ThinhDinh]

@Darren_Murphy

I suspect that if @ThinhDinh was to re-create this app now, he’d probably do the same thing

Fully agree.

[dinomeg]

@ThinhDinh

5/“Textjoin” inside Glide

You may have faced a situation where you have to join multiple columns of text to give a good display, but your array doesn’t always have the same sizee. This is when you collect many fields of the same category in an array column via form (i.e Activities 1, Activities 2, etc.) without all columns required.

With the new Joined List column, we can do this inside Glide.

First, create a multple relation matching the array column back to the Choices sheet, then make a joined list column using that relation and separate them with a delimiter, in this case I use the default comma.

With that setup, I can use them in a template column to display the text inside the details view.

However, this approach would only work when you have a reference choice list to relate back. When you take random values from users, there must be a further step to combine all of user inputs into a column for this to work.

Hey @ThinhDinh this is a super cool feature, I’d love to copy it if possible. Is this app still available? The link in the original post seems to be “not found.”

Would this join text feature work with check boxes or just text entry/choice components? I have users selecting check boxes for things that apply to them and am trying to find a way to display these choices gracefully.

[ThinhDinh]

I think I have deleted this a while ago, sorry for that inconvenience.

For your case, you can create:

• A template column that holds the value “true”.
• Make a relation of that template column to the user-specific boolean column.
• Return the title of the checkboxes in a joined list column, in whatever format you prefer. I usually use a “new line” character.

[dinomeg]

Thanks so much, I’ll try that out

[Jeff_Hager]

I use the Joined List column in the examples here, if that helps.

Reset Multiple Rows At Once

There have been several requests for people to find a way to clear a value in multiple rows. I was thinking about that and came up with a quick example of a way to handle that. Instead of trying to clear a value in an entire column, I realized we could just change one value on a parent column, load it as a single value in our sheet and then compare that parent value to a column that we set or unset for each row. It’s not about clearing an entire column, it’s about making a value in each row n…

[dinomeg]

Hmm, I’ll read it closer later but I don’t think so…? I’m looking for an alternative way to display selections instead of what I have below, the check boxes are redundant if I can get it to just list the things selected. Unless I’m misunderstanding where you’re pointing to.

[Jeff_Hager]

Below my list is a rich text component that is built from all of the items that were selected in the list.

[GioRinaldi]

Sorry man, is the link not working?
Thanks

Gio

[Jeff_Hager]

@GioRinaldi

@ThinhDinh

I think I have deleted this a while ago, sorry for that inconvenience.

[ThinhDinh]

If you have any specific needs just leave a comment here, we’ll try to help.

[dinomeg]

@Jeff_Hager

Below my list is a rich text component that is built from all of the items that were selected in the list.

Oooh! I see what you’ve got there, that’s great. I’ll see if I can incorporate that list. I do like the clear all component as well. Thank you!

[Blue_Community]

I emailed you about this Thinh
Let’s say I have 20 forms inside my app. Each form when completed adds up to 5% to a total 100% once all of the forms are complete. If I understand you correctly, let me know if this looks correct:

• Add a Progress column and a Date Column to Each of 20 forms
• When a form is submitted, increment the progress by 5
• Create a rollup column which adds all of the individual forms progress, for an overall progress?

Does this make sense? I think i explained it better in the email I sent you…

[ThinhDinh]

Replied to your email Please check it and let me know your thoughts.

[Blue_Community]

Thank you Thinh… much appreciated…