I would like to have a button that will assign a value to a control outside the table (a select box for example). My use case is this: I have a tasks table in one page, and a “task details” page in the other, which gives a very detailed task page with lots of related information and lots of tables …

Hye… I put a solution direktly in your doc. With a filter, you can select the first Row in your Filter Table to change the value in this row: [image] Hope this helps you

Thank you! That’s what I’m already doing in the “workaround” section. I was hoping for something more elegant, as this feels very “hacky”. I think that an action to change a value in a control would be useful for many scenarios and eliminate the use of single row tables.

ok, maybe i didn’t quite understand the goal. I use such a filter table for everything. This is then located separately on an admin page. So it is also possible that each user gets his own filtered view. Look at this tip from @Paul_Danyliuk … this helped me a lot. [image] [Video] U…

Thank you! That is indeed a nice solution for multi-user cases. However, I was talking about exactly what he says is impossible here at around 19:20: [Coda trick: User-specific filters] This is not a “how to” request - I understand the how to. This is rather a feature request - I thin…

Another use for this? A “Clear” button for canvas controls (reset a lookup to “blank”, for instance).

Yeah, this would be useful. I think in general a nice solution to this problem would be some kind of lightweight Store object. I often find that there are times when I want to add a new lookup table to my system, but I don’t need a full blown table. I need something much more lightweight (basically…

Hi Oded! Hopefully this is a bit easier than your amazing workaround moving forward :slight_smile: [image] Launched: Set control value action News from Coda Have you ever made the perfect table with the perfect set of interactive filters. . . only to realize it takes a few…

Hi Andrew, where can I find instructions on how to implement this button? I know how to insert a button, I got that far, but how do I add more than one control and how do I make it reset the values? Thank you

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Hi Oded! Hopefully this is a bit easier than your amazing workaround moving forward

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Set control value using button action

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