Emojis and the reaction component

[GeneDrea]

Greetings,

I have an old app that used emoji reactions. I see the that I am still able to create a column for emojis, however, I have not been able to find the emoji reactions component. Is this reaction component still available?

Thank you in advance.

[fk1214]

No, not in the new apps. You’ll have to make one yourself, by hand or with the AI component. I might make one soon and share the link.

[fk1214]

I made an AI component that achives similar functionallity to this, check it out and customise it as you like

Emoji Picker - Glide custom component

[nathanaelb]

@GeneDrea

Is this reaction component still available?

What did this reaction component do?

If this is a component a little bit like what one would see on LinkedIn, the ability to react to a post with one of 5-6 emojis, I think you could recreate it by having a table with the emojis, then using either a choice component or a button block.

[fk1214]

Introducing the Reaction Component

The reaction component allows you to configure different reactions your users can have to your items. Each reaction has an emoji – which is seen in the app, and a text string – which is written to the sheet or data editor. Like the Rating and Like components, the Reaction component should be used with user-specific columns if you want users to all to react to the same items. [ScreenFlow]

My component recreates it but you could also use a Choice component, seems like I like overcomplicating things

[GeneDrea]

Thank you! I recreated it with a choice component and it worked fine. I was just wondering where the option went from the Classic app.

[GeneDrea]

I was looking for these components from the Classic app because when it was converted, I was lift with a message that said that there should be a “reaction component” there. However, those components no longer exist and it was causing a bit of confusion in my older app. I was able to recreate it.

[nathanaelb]

Glide Classic Apps are now a deprecated (old) product from Glide, and not all the features from classic apps were carried over to Glide’s now existing app builder. A lot was carried over, and Glide’s current product is so much more advanced than classic that the two products are barely comparable. It so happens that the reaction component, which I had totally forgotten about at this point, was not carried over, either because it is still on the roadmap or perhaps it was decided that the component wasn’t sufficiently used by Glide builders.

[fk1214]

@nathanaelb

either because it is still on the roadmap or perhaps it was decided that the component wasn’t sufficiently used by Glide builders

Yeah, plus you could easily replicate it either with Choice component, or AI component if you also want to replicate the visual look.

[nathanaelb]

Some components and flows can be built for sure. I still wish that we had an extra few: a countdown timer, tabbed containers, accordion, a timeline, flip box, confirmation modal.