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Introducing buttons

A button invites interaction. It offers your teammates a clear, safe way to update or add to a doc. So collaborators can become users, and your doc can become an app.

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Originally published 6/21/2018

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Not everyone in your Coda doc cares to look under the hood. Sometimes your teammates are only there to update a status or add a single task, and worry if they touch a row, the whole thing will break. Or maybe they don’t worry enough and actually break something.

A button solves that. A button invites interaction. It offers your teammates a clear, safe way to update or add to a doc. So collaborators can become users, and your doc can become an app.

Pressing a button can add, modify, and delete a row in any table. It can even push another button. One day Coda buttons will be able to trigger actions of all sorts, like order a pizza or send a push notification. But for right now, this is pretty cool. Here are a few of our favorites, which you can copy

here⁠

The “Add Contact” Button

Make it easy for your entire sales team to keep up the CRM. This button pops open a new row detail.

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The “Upvote/Downvote” Button

Tell your team to up-vote or down-vote questions or ideas before a big meeting.

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The “Start Timer” Button

Use this Start Timer button to keep meetings on track.

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Designing buttons.

Click + > Control > Button

Give your button a name — this way, tables and controls and the other building blocks can reference and connect to it in formulas.

What do you want your button to say? Note: You can add a formula on top, so that your button reflects a user name or changing value (Check out the Remove Dupes button and you’ll see what we mean.)

Assign an action — add, modify, or delete a row.

More on buttons:

Read the article on how to add buttons

here⁠

Take advantage of our

button starter kit⁠

in the gallery. It includes the ones listed above plus a few other favorites.

Build a

live polling app⁠

Test your mastery over buttons with

Puzzle #5⁠

Want to print your doc?
This is not the way.

Try clicking the ⋯ next to your doc name or using a keyboard shortcut (

CtrlP

) instead.