Maybe I am wrong, but I’m fearing I’m not: Button formulas stopped working for me when inside Concatenate formula: they keep showing correctly the text in preview and button in formula editor, but not elsewhere. Outside the editor, what you get is that deadly “(bolt) Action” sentence

Yes noticed and confirm exactly the same problem. And it is very sad that the developers intentionally disabled such a possibility, such a workaround to combine several buttons in one column. Since in my work 50% of the documents use this method, the readers of my documents are pleasant and comfor…

UPD: I received a reply from tech support about this problem. They reported that the formula is now unsupported as this formula is unstable and experimental, they recommend using the official list of formulas. Dear @shishir and the Coda team please next time alert you to which formulas will no long…

Yeah, I also had this response. I am well aware of that it was an unsupported formula, and that the button column type has received some improvements, yet the possibility of place different buttons together, and furthermore, combine them with text, was essential for me to develop advanced UX. They …

And we stand with you dear codians, keep doing your outstanding magic :blush:

We were able to fix this to allow it to keep working for now, but if you are creating a doc that you rely on and cannot have it break, I would seriously consider finding a different solution and stay away from unsupported formulas. This is still not supported and still could break with future updat…

Thank you for the update! Please give us some official way to render inline buttons. Can’t say for everyone (although evidently it’s not only me who needs this) but I often find myself needing: A variable number of buttons rendered inline, e.g. these are Concatenated from a table: [image] D…

All these use cases + rendering multiple buttons horizontally on a card in Kanban view. An example would look like this [image] Without Button() formula, the above card would instead look like the one below. That big empty white space on the right side is useful for nothing except to enforce 60px…

Also, if you want to clearly separate consultation UI from edition UI (something really necessary in my opinion, since there is little visual difference between editable fields and calculated fields, and because if you have many to many relationships you need some tricks and intermediate forms to pr…

Hi @Ben_Lee - I saw in @Filmos post about undocumented formulas and the risk that the document can crash and require reverting to a previous version or resorting to tricks to navigate to a stable page and then perform workarounds to purge data and remove the problem formulas. Is that required to u…

[image] Ed_Liveikis: IMO it’s pretty dangerous to even expose those formulas to users in the first place? They are not exposed. They are not on the list; they won’t show up in the formula editor suggestions until you’ve finished typing them out; they have this icon before them saying these ar…

Button formula finally (almost) down :(

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Kelsey_Chan February 5, 2021, 1:38am 5

We see you. We hear you. Your buttons should come back to life within the next two prod pushes.

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Button formula finally (almost) down :(

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