I want to make a button (or anything) where upon tap/click, the number column will be incremented by 1. How do I do this? Link action which trigger a formula?

@Bamr I don’t know if you would want a button just to decrement an inventory item. You could simply create a relation column to link to your purchased items, a rollup column to count the number of purchased items, and a math column to subtract that rollup value from a starting inventory.

[image] Reducing a sheet cell’s value when a form is submitted Yep! I have a version of this in my Inventory app ( itemstore.glideapp.io ). Set a quantity for an item, then every time a user buys an item, the quantity decreases: [ScreenFlow] Basically, set an initial q…

@Bamr , not yet. But Rob & Jeff both provide some options.

Thanks for the feedback. Rob’s work around is clever and would work but would be overkill for such a simple calculation. I actually found another App service calls AppSheet that has exactly what I was looking for, and a bunch more. [Inventory Decrement]

I think we have the winner now!!! The new action called Increment within Action Text´s features makes this posible! [image] I´m watching you Glide!! :face_with_monocle: Saludos

Yep…you can use this as a (mathmatical) reset button as well! [image] Increment Action?! Check this out: scream Reset button!

I could use this for a score card I have for my classroom. Each time they mine an asteroid they earn 500XP.

[image] gvalero: The new action called Increment within Action Text´s features makes this posible! Hi I’ve asked around on another topic on this issue. Does anyone have an idea if this, or any other similar action, is protected from concurrency/race condition? In other words, what happens i…

No, it doesn’t. I’ll respond to your other post shortly (I’m away from my computer at the moment).

Hi @Robert_Petitto and @Darren_Murphy , One of the reasons for using this numeric value was to in order to have a truly 1:1 relationship between tables. This should survive any changes done by the users, including changes I didn’t think about and they somehow find a way to do :slight_smile: I had a…

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Yep…you can use this as a (mathmatical) reset button as well!

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