Create Comments Section as A Detail View?

[tonycanata]

Hi all,

I am trying to create a comments section on my app and cannot figure it out. I am making a food tracking app and I want people to be able to comment on other people’s daily results. I have a main view that is a Deck View that shows daily results for people. I want people to be able to click on any daily entry they want and comment on it.

I used the Data and Comments (Data and Comments) template and created a Comments Table which has a related Comments List in the table from which I created my Deck View. But I cannot seem to set up my ux so that clicking on one of the entries to my Deck view will bring me to a Comments section. Instead I get a Details section that I honestly am not sure where it is coming from. Any help appreciated. I have created a Comments Ref View but I can’t seem to make the Deck View that it references display the Comments view.

I would appreciate any help in understanding where these I guess they are called detail views? are generated from and how to manually set up one for leaving comments as I’ve described.

Cheers,
Tony

ps - I tried to upload screenshots but when I pasted them in what I saw were what may be links to them but the screenshots themselves did not appear. Should I trust that screen shots will appear when I post my topic, or is there some other way to upload them?

[Marc_Dillon]

tonycanata:

clicking on one of the entries to my Deck view will bring me to a Comments section

tonycanata:

I have created a Comments Ref View

The “Comments Ref View” is a table(or deck, or card) View on the Comments Table?

I think you could do this:
Create a new Action on the main Table, of type" go to another view", and use the expression similar to:

LINKTOFILTEREDVIEW(
  "Comments Ref view" ,
  [ref-col-in-comments-table] = [_THISROW]
)

help.appsheet.com

LINKTOFILTEREDVIEW()

Constructed deep link to filtered view

Then from your deck view on the main Table, set this new Action as the Row-Selected Behavior.

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Some more general info for you:

Default behavior when clicking on a single record from a “collection” View (table,deck,card,gallery…), is to go to the Detail view of that record. Detail views are always auto-generated for every Table, but you may need to select the “Show system views” option from the bottom of the UX>Views page to find them.

When you have references set up between Table, the parent record’s Detail view should automatically display an “inline” view of related child records.

If you’re in the editor, and are seeing a View in the emulator, you can also jump straight to that view by clicking the blue “view” link underneath the emulator.

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tonycanata:

I tried to upload screenshots but when I pasted them in what I saw were what may be links to them but the screenshots themselves did not appear. Should I trust that screen shots will appear when I post my topic

I always paste images directly into the post editor. Here is what I see on my screen for the above screenshot.

[tonycanata]

Thanks Marc! I have read your response and will spend some time absorbing it and attempting to implement your suggestions.
Cheers,
Tony

[tonycanata]

It worked! Many thanks. It took me a beat to walk through it, but with some trial and error I got it working. Thanks for the general information as well, which helped make things make a bit more sense overall.

Cheers,
Tony