# How to make a action work on multiple rows and not only the current one? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Tags:** actions\ **Created:** [March 14, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-make-a-action-work-on-multiple-rows-and-not-only-the-current-one/80746 "2025-03-14T14:04:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Botto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/botto/32/82054_2.png) [@Botto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Botto)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-make-a-action-work-on-multiple-rows-and-not-only-the-current-one/80746/1 "2025-03-14T14:04:06Z")
I’m building a app that creates PDF reports with PDF Monkey. When a form is submitted it automatically creates a link to the PDF on a column, those files need to be downloaded. Is there a way to download all PDFs that haven’t been downloaded yet with a single button click? ---
**Author:** ![MaximeBaker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maximebaker/32/80877_2.png) [@MaximeBaker](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaximeBaker)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 7:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-make-a-action-work-on-multiple-rows-and-not-only-the-current-one/80746/2 "2025-03-14T19:57:13Z")
I used the call api action to directly call the PDFMonkey API. ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-make-a-action-work-on-multiple-rows-and-not-only-the-current-one/80746/3 "2025-03-15T00:28:34Z")
Does calling the API directly help you download multiple files? ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 12:34am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-make-a-action-work-on-multiple-rows-and-not-only-the-current-one/80746/4 "2025-03-15T00:34:05Z")
> [@Botto](#): > > I’m building a app that creates PDF reports with PDF Monkey. When a form is submitted it automatically creates a link to the PDF on a column, those files need to be downloaded. Is there a way to download all PDFs that haven’t been downloaded yet with a single button click? I think you would run into problems, at least from my experience with MacOS/iOS to attempt to open/download multiple files at once. I guess you can do it like this: - Construct your data to get a comma-delimited list of all undownloaded files for the signed-in user. - Send that list to Make through trigger webhook. - Create an Archive module and add the files to a ZIP. - Upload the Archive content somewhere, say Dropbox or Google Drive. - Get the ZIP content link back to Glide. - Use Upload File action to upload that ZIP file to Glide storage (this is optional). - Let the user open that ZIP link to download everything at once. ---
**Author:** ![Botto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/botto/32/82054_2.png) [@Botto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Botto)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 9:16am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-make-a-action-work-on-multiple-rows-and-not-only-the-current-one/80746/6 "2025-04-01T09:16:51Z")
> [@ThinhDinh](#): > > > [@Botto](#): > > > > I’m building a app that creates PDF reports with PDF Monkey. When a form is submitted it automatically creates a link to the PDF on a column, those files need to be downloaded. Is there a way to download all PDFs that haven’t been downloaded yet with a single button click? > > I think you would run into problems, at least from my experience with MacOS/iOS to attempt to open/download multiple files at once. > > I guess you can do it like this: > > - Construct your data to get a comma-delimited list of all undownloaded files for the signed-in user. > - Send that list to Make through trigger webhook. > - Create an Archive module and add the files to a ZIP. > - Upload the Archive content somewhere, say Dropbox or Google Drive. > - Get the ZIP content link back to Glide. > - Use Upload File action to upload that ZIP file to Glide storage (this is optional). > - Let the user open that ZIP link to download everything at once. Thank you for your tip. I tried it, and it works. However, now I need to figure out how to change the value that indicates the raw file must be downloaded for all the raws that have been downloaded, and I have no idea how to do that. ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-make-a-action-work-on-multiple-rows-and-not-only-the-current-one/80746/7 "2025-04-02T00:26:37Z")
How is it currently configured for your app? What conditions drive the visibilities etc?