So, like we can change button label and a badge content with formula, it will be cool to have that ability for the color as well. Right now all buttons in the same column should be the same color, if they are not disabled, of course.

+1 FYI if you need any sort of distinction, what you can do at the moment is keep all the buttons white and change text color using _Color() formula on the label [image]

Great idea :pause_button::stop_button::record_button::arrow_forward: +1

Yeah, totally needed, as color distinction is often more relevant than customizable text. @Paul_Danyliuk » Awesome workaround, thanks! May I ask where did you find this function? It’s totally not in the documentation, which makes me somewhat sad, since that’s exactly the place I’d expect to find so…

This is one of the hidden formulas, which aren’t guaranteed to stay like that, and are probably only there to be a staple for some internal Coda workings. Re how I found these: Set a color in conditional format by formula - #8 by Paul_Danyliuk And here is a thread with more efforts to make use of …

Actually… :wink: [image] And it was in plain sight, in that topic about hidden formulas. Props to @Filmos for finding the list of valid color values and for tinkering with the Button() function. Important: other color values will crash the doc. Partially typed in values (e.g. when you start typi…

Sounds Great (apart from that scary crashing part :smiley: ), and I have to admit since the functions don’t have their arguments mentioned, I never expected the button to offer this functionality - so thanks for digging in! :heart:

Hi there, It seems that using incorrect icon names crash it as well. Do you know a list of valid icon names?

Alert types: None All Errors Icons (in no particular order): lightning circle star cocktail battery person coffee currency smiley chili heart thumbsup bell diamond bug fire lightbulb checkmark sun cloud Please note though that these Button-wrapped buttons take quite a lot of space in the doc, …

Thanks a lot @Paul_Danyliuk I’ll be using it in a <600 rows table. Cheers

Set the color of the button based on some criteria

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Johg_Ananda April 2, 2021, 1:20am 15

@Paul_Danyliuk hey what do you mean by ‘damage the doc’? Something like this?

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