Click a button to perform an action. The button component provides a quick way for users to interact with data. When clicked, buttons perform functions like calling APIs, updating data or inserting new data.

Ways to use a button

Add in-line actions

You can add an in-line button (child component) to a table, detail view, or card list (parent component). The button is automatically displayed for every record in the parent component.

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Examples:
Let's say you have a table in your Space displaying Companies. A button can be inserted in-line within each row, labeled "Activate". Clicking a button in a row would use the data in that row as inputs to execute a function that will activate the company.

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Get inputs from multiple components

‍You can configure buttons to take inputs from a single component or multiple components.

Example:
You have a table of Customers and a table of Products. Let’s say you want to create a tool that will hit your company’s Orders API endpoint with a customer ID and a product’s serial code, to create an Order. You can set up a button that will use the customerID from the Customers table and the serial_code from the Products table as inputs.

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Set specific values on click

Buttons can be configured to always set a certain value.

Example: You have a User record and you want a way to easily turn the plan_type to “Premium”. You can set up a button and configure the value of the plan_type field to be “Premium”.

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If you want to allow users to verify the inputs before submitting or input their own values, use a form component instead.

Configuring your button

Actions

First, select the function that this button should trigger when a user clicks on it.

For most databases, you'll see auto-generated insert, update, and delete functions. For example, if you selected your PostgreSQL database with a Users table, you'll see "insert Users record", "update Users record", and "delete Users record" functions appear automatically.

Tip: If you do not see auto-generated functions, check to see if the database credentials used to connect has permission to insert, update, and delete.

For most business apps, auto-generated functions will appear, based on the available APIs of that app. For an app like Stripe, you'll see functions for "insert Balance Transactions record", "update Balance Transactions record", "delete Balance Transactions record", and so forth for the resources available in Stripe's API.

If you created any custom functions for a database or HTTP service, those will also be available for you to choose from.

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Refreshing components after submitting

Usually, if your button changes some data that is‍ displayed in the Space, you'll want to refresh the data. After Submitting options allow you to refresh the data of any component in the Space.

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Example:
If you had a button that would change the status of a user in the Users table from "Active" to "Suspended", you should set the Users table to refresh after submitting, otherwise you will not see the "Suspended" status appear in the table.

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Fields (and values)

Here you'll specify the actual inputs that are passed along when the button is clicked. To do this, you’ll select fields, and then specify what values go in them.

Select fields

By default, only required fields are added. For example, If you’re updating a record in a database, this would just be the primary key. Click “Add data” to view a list of all available fields for your selected function.

Specify values

You’ll need to choose a value that is passed in for each field. You can get this value from an existing component, set a custom default value, set a UUID, set to null, or set to the date-time the button is clicked (date/time fields only).

In the example below, we’ve chosen to set the value of the “id” field with the “id” of the selected row of the Customer List (which is a table component in this Space).

In this next example, we’ve chosen to always set the status field’s value to “Active”.

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Check out Field Configuration to learn more.

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