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Multiple buttons test

Display multiple buttons in one column to improve the UI of your doc
Steven Hurtado

Where it all started?

Recently
loucadufault
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submitted
this feature request
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in the community’s suggestion box to be able to have a “Button Group column” that could have multiple buttons in just one column. Whenever I built docs for customers I pay a lot of attention to the UI and having plenty of buttons makes the experience overwhelming and having a single button on each column makes the interface far too wide.
Most of the time I've solved this by creating what I call "Dynamic buttons" in which I use SwitchIf() to change both the label and the action the button performs based on other parameters of the row (such as status).
But the approach suggested by
Evgeniy_Mamontov
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to use the Button() formula to display multiple buttons in a card made total sense so I went and applied it to a column with the “Wrap Text” parameter activated and I’m quite happy with the result.
The formula is super simple:
Concatenate(
Button(thisRow.[Button 1],"Button 1","Green"),
LineBreak(),
Button(thisRow.[Button 2],"Button 2","Red")
)
You’ve to be aware that the Button() formula is a hidden formula and might cause issues in the doc, but I think it could be useful for someone so here goes the test!
Concatenated buttons text
0
Button 1
Button 2
Concatenated Buttons
1
Button 1
Button 2
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Button 1
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Button 2
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2
Button 1
Button 2
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Button 1
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Button 2
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3
Button 1
Button 2
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Button 1
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Button 2
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Test table
0
Name
Column 2
Column 3
Notes
1
New row from button 1
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Open
2
New row from button 1
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​
Open
3
New row from button 1
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Open
4
New row from button 2
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Open
There are no rows in this table
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