@david Pretty straight-forward use case. I was hoping for something twitter-like where you could restrict the number of characters in a text content post. Even in your Finstagram app, it would prevent people from writing a novel of a caption that would look terrible with word wrap in Inline Lists. In my case, the product I’m building will have tight text length restrictions as a part of its functionality… like Twitter. Micro-blogging. In fact, if this feature was implemented and you also allowed Text Wrapping of captions inside tiles of the Inline List, people could create a bit of a Twitter-like clone out of your current Finstagram template—making the tile background a solid color rather than an image, they would look like word bubbles with a little bit of text in them.
Edit: This is also pretty standard in online forms. Every forms plug-in includes it. All blogging platforms have it baked into their forms. Even oldskool HTML has a maxlength attribute for input text elements.
My guess is it’s probably not on the docket, which keeps this particular app I’m building more of a short term MVP here at Glide
But thanks @George_B for the tip on deleting duplicate entries! I have that on my own personal scripting wish-list. I created a “Like this Post” and “Flag this Post” form, but currently, a user could submit it 100 times and it would look like the post was getting much more love than it actually is or is being flagged as inappropriate by many more people than it actually is. So I do need to script something quick and dirty, even with just a daily trigger that deletes all dups in that sheet.
Of course, once the data from the “Favorites” component gets its own sheet this will probably be moot. When that happens, it would be nice if the Glide team could consider making the Favorite button a bit more versatile in style as well. Right now, the heart reminds people of Instagram-style “Liking” a post, when in fact, the functionality currently is more like a “Bookmark” or the Twitter-like Favorite—which is a heart now in response to FB and Instagram but used to be a star. Might be nice if we could switch between different icons in that component: a heart if people want to use it to calculate number of likes, a bookmark or star if people want to use it to keep track of a users personal favorites, even a flag if a developer wants to use it to track content that people are marking as inappropriate. Once we have access to the data from that component, I think it will be a very powerful Glide component. But again, not sure when that’s coming, so in the interim, I’m using a form. A little clunky, but it works.