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A new building block: buttons

Nine buttons to help transform your team’s doc into an easy-to-use app.
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Not everyone in your Coda doc cares to look under the hood. Sometimes they’re only there to update a status or add a single task, and they 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 team a clear, safe way to update the 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 send a push notification or order a pizza. But for right now, this is pretty cool.
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A few starter buttons.

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"Get stuff done" button
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Clear out all your assigned tasks with a single click—so satisfying.

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"Add new contact" button
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Your sales team can log new contacts without pawing through the full CRM.

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"Log update" button
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Your team will update the right table every time.

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"Upvote" button
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Tell your team to vote questions and ideas up or down.

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"RSVP" button
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This one greys out after it’s been clicked.

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"Remove dupes" button
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Delete all duplicate with a click.

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"Start timer" button
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For perfectly timed meetings.

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"Hand-off" button
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Two actions in one: Mark a task complete and assign to the next person.

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"Bulk add" button
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You have a playbook for every client. Now every new client can get that same list of tasks without copy paste.
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Designing buttons.

Click Explore > Button > Select button or control
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 how to add buttons
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