I’m just dropping this here so I have something to refer people to when they ask. This is a simple concept app (copyable), that demonstrates the following techniques: Building custom forms for adding and editing list items (as an alternative to the native forms provided by Glide) Preventing dupli…

Okay, well let’s consider the case of editing a record. When you want to edit a record using a custom form, and you’re not doing it on the current details screen, you need to ensure two things: The screen you navigate to is attached to the table that contains the record that you want to edit, and …

[image] Darren_Murphy: The screen you navigate to is attached to the table that contains the record that you want to edit In our usecase, this hidden tab is pointing towards the working table for Animals, allowing us to both add and edit animals. [image] Darren_Murphy: attached to the co…

[image] Test_Test: In our usecase, this hidden tab is pointing towards the working table for Animals, allowing us to both add and edit animals. Adding is fine, because you can add a row to any table from anywhere. But editing is different, you need to be attached to the correct table and poin…

[image] Darren_Murphy: What would the behaviour be if a user navigated to it directly? User cannot navigate to this tab, or even see it. It’s not visable unless the ShowHidden Boolean is true. That only happens when we want it to happen (and we also remove the back button via CSS). [image…

I have tried similar logic to avoid duplicate entries when they are entered. But the app only works for a single user. If multiple users write at the same time, it mess up the data completely. How can we avoid this?

Did you see my response to your question in the other thread you created? [image] How to make user specific app for multi-user Sounds like you are using a Custom Form , yes? When using custom forms, it is very important that all of your input components are directed at user specific columns. Thi…

Hello. As the other participants of this conversation, I tried to validate items being added or edited, to prevent duplicate items. The solution looks great, but I didn’t succeed to use it, because in my data table, the data is updated only after pressing the submit button. Before pressing the but…

If you are using a custom form, then you are updating a data row as you type, so it may be the case that you are not using a custom form and you are instead using a native Glide form…or your logic to check for duplicates is in the wrong table.

How do I create a custom form?

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Darren_Murphy July 22, 2022, 8:35am 112

Did you see my response to your question in the other thread you created?

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How do I create a custom form?

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