The flexibility of layout could be enhanced quite a bit if it was possible to make a tile (fx as an inline list) link to a specific screen - just like what is possible with the image and the button component. These can have action = “Link to Screen”
Right now you can only have one link horizontally - but allowing tiles to have link to screen would make it easier to create more links on the same line.
Somehow the screen to link to should be available as a column in the same row as other information used the title. Should be doable.
The subject is similar to what is discussed in this thread
@david What do you think about such an idea? You enhanced the tile layout very much (and thanks!) - and I think that it can be enhanced further - with a great impact (and little effort?) - by allowing to link to a screen where the ‘screen reference’ is found in a column in the same row as the information used for the tile is found.
Actually, if a variable could be used to link to a screen in the tile layout - it might be reused on the component ‘Button’ and ‘Image’ thereby allowing for dynamic screen reference on these components.
What would happen if you used a variable for a sheet that didn’t exist, or a sheet that existed in your spreadsheet, but hasn’t been set up and laid out in the builder yet? What happens when you add a new list item row? Should the app just fail, or should there be some sort of gentle error message?
@Jeff_Hager If a failure occurs - of course I would like a gentle error message
The scenarios you line up are of course relevant - but I believe that it would be a reasonable limitation of such a new functionality. It is the responsability of designer to make sure that the screens are present.
To me, allowing multiple links on the same line would allow for more versatile ‘home’ pages compared to the present possibility where either buttons or images could be used.
I like to play devil’s advocate sometimes. Not only to help us hash out ideas, but also in hopes that it gives the Glide team some additional thoughts to help them develop these ideas. Sometimes you need to consider all possible code paths because somebody will always find a loophole you never thought of.
Just to share my use case for this - I have a gallery of photos in an inline list, which are taken from videos. I want to send the user to the page which contains the video (along with some details about the video) that the photo is from, when they tap the image.
I solved this by putting a relation link in the detail page but obviously that’s a little bit more clunky.
@alexs this doesn’t sound like it would be a problem with what’s currently available. If your sheet has a column for the image and a column for for the video url, then you can use the image column for the tile and when you click on it to open the details, you can have a video component in the details. Unless I’m not understanding your problem? I’m not following why you would need a relation in the details.
Thanks for the suggestion but that’s not quite what I’m looking for - I should explained my setup in more detail. The videos have dedicated pages in another tab. So I want to send the person to those pages, when they tap the photos. Does that make sense?
They’re hosted in Google Drive. But the key part is that they’re part of a detail page and it’s the page that I want to link to, that contains the video, not just the video itself.
Just wanted to bump this thread as I’ve been trying to figure out a workaround to accomplish this. This would be an awesome feature I think. Here’s an example use case:
If an art lover tourist is visiting from abroad and they’re looking for museums, perhaps the home screen could be several cities which each city being represented by a picture (fx Empire state building for NY, Eiffel Tower for Paris). So if they click the empire state building tile image, I’d like for it to go to another screen where there are a dozen images of art museums and the user can click on any of those pics to access the details.
To take it a step further, let’s say I wanted to make this a community app, perhaps an art lover might want to connect with fellow art lovers in a different city. So instead of pictures of museums, there are now 50-100 profile pics of other users who live in NY.
@Krivo I upvoted the feature but looks like there isn’t much demand for it
EDIT: Just thought of one potential workaround but it would cost extra money due to creating multiple apps. You could maybe set up several apps with a dedicated App Launcher app with images purely to link to other apps. So using my example above, each city would be it’s own app maybe?
