I have a table with a date column along with a series of buttons that filter the date column for Today, Yesterday, -2 Days, -3 Days, -4 Days, -5 Days, -6 Days, etc. Is there anyway I can add some form of visual indicator (change of button color? font color? badge?) to show which button is currently…

Hey Gregg! There are many different ways to do this, the best way just depends on how exactly your buttons are working. What is your current action in your button? Is it modifying a ControlValue?

Yes! To go back 4 days, I currently use this, but of course open to any suggestions to better ways to approach it: SetControlValue([Hitlist Test Date.], List( Today()-4, Today()-4 )) Thank you!

Great! Then I would do this: In the label portion of your button write: If((today()-4).in(HitListTestDate), _color(“#00000”, “in Use”, “not in use”)) Then, in the place of the 0’s put in the hex-value of the color you are after! Then do the same for your other buttons but adjust the if criteria …

You can make the button that’s currently in use disabled. Then it will be greyed out. You can use formulas in your labels and e.g. prepend a :radio_button: or :white_circle: emoji If you wish to venture into hidden experimental formulas, you can make some Button()s with arbitrary icons like this: […

@Paul_Danyliuk in a recent video of yours (de-duplicating video?) i am prety sure i saw a progress-bar show up in some of your buttons for a few moments… or was i seeing things? can it be done? max

[image] Max_OBrien: i am prety sure i say a progress-bar show up in some of your buttons for a few moments… or was i seeing things? No no, you got that right @Max_OBrien :grin: ! So, yes it can be done as, apparently, it’s an “old trick” from @Paul_Danyliuk :raised_hands: ! I searched on t…

Maybe this is what he was referring to? [image] A somewhat of a documentation of hidden formulas [Added mechanics of nested buttons] Developers Central Deep modification of control objects [Back to index] Disclaimer: deep modification is extremely unstable. Make sure you…

Indeed it was a progress bar but I didn’t suggest it here because I didn’t see how that would work along what OP requested (highlighting a “currently active” button in terms that it’s not a long-running action but a yes/no state, i.e. indicating that “Last week” was the last pressed number / the cur…

ha @Paul_Danyliuk … you throw down a challenge methinks :wink: let me see if i can figure it out tomorrow im too tired in the brain right now challenge accepted :smiley:

You guys are making my head explode! :wink:

Add visual indicator showing which button is currently active?

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