I’m trying to make a mark all feature for attendance tracking so users would not be able to mannually add one at a time to change their attendance status, wondering if anyone has any idea on how to do this. My current approach is to have a workflow that loops to set attendance to be 1 (i.e indicating that person is present) but it’s not working on my end.
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I need to know more about your data structure to give you a suggestion. To take attendance, are you marking a specific column in the attendee table such that you would need to either market one at a time or do a looped workflow? If so, is there only one column that you are overwriting each time you’re taking attendance?
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Hey Derrick, Welcome To Glide Community!
You’re on the right path. Instead of looping, try this:
- Create a helper table with a “Mark All” trigger (like a timestamp or boolean).
- Relate all attendance rows to that helper row.
- When “Mark All” is tapped, update the trigger.
- Use a computed column to detect the change and then update the attendance via relation.
This way, you avoid looping and let Glide handle the updates.
How do you uncheck a specific student in that case? I guess timestamps should be involved here to allow that but it’s complex.
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