This is probably one of the most common patterns in Apps & Pages and yet it’s a little tricky to get your head around when you’re new to Glide. So we thought we’d do a short video, summarising the basics: [Things in Things | Glide Tips]

Why did Thing 1 and Thing 2 cancel their gym memberships? Things weren’t working out. :stuck_out_tongue:

Hi, Jack 🙋 Thks for this new tutorial. Lots of work. Must be stressful :slightly_smiling_face: I need help to understand the following impacts: You say app & pages interchangeably, as though the UI is exactly the same: If I were more newbie than I am, I would have thought you’re in the App UI, n…

Yes I could be clearer about whether it’s an app or page at the start. It’s not meant for complete newbies. I explain that people should cover a few fundamental topics before diving in — row ids, relations etc… Could you rephrase No. 3 more concisely? :wink: I’m not following.

[image] JackVaughan: Yes I could be clearer about whether it’s an app or page at the start. Phew! :sweat_smile: [image] JackVaughan: It’s not meant for complete newbies. I explain that people should cover a few fundamental topics before diving in — row ids, relations etc… Indeed, but,…

[image] L.M: You can announce the prerequisites upfront, displayed on screen. Yea - I’ve done that before. It’s a good idea. [image] L.M: I’d rather you: 1/Use directly the Project & Tasks use case, Sure. Good to know. Thanks for the feedback.

This tips really will help full to me to understand the 1. features of Relation type of field, 2. the way of displaying group wise items.

Hi, Just wondering if your parent thing has 3 type of child things that also have child thing-lettes, how do you display those thing-lettes in a new tab/window (trying to be abstract). E.g. Project 1 has 3 sub-projects, each of those sub-projects have tasks. I want to display the tasks for project …

So you don’t want the user to click on the sub-projects and see related tasks? Do you have a visual presentation of what it should look like?

Hi ThinhDinh, I think I just responded to you on another issue that has an example of what I would like to do, but I will recopy my response here: E.g. Project tab - shows a collection of all sub-projects. when selecting a project and selecting a different tab: Project tasks tab - should show the…

[image] Is it possible to hide collection using button block action Ask for Help Thanks, I’ve watched the relations video multiple times and yes I am able to get the details back, but it will show them on the same tab. I’d like to change the tab to view the details. Hope t…

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ThinhDinh August 15, 2024, 12:02am 13

So your issue is you want to view each of them on another tab? Is that just personal preference or do you have another reason to do so? I have always just do a details view navigation for parent - child records.

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