Find names of inline actions

[Kirk_Masden]

This post is no longer valid, in part because the interface no longer works in this way but more importantly because the AppSheet editing interface now has visual editing:

First visual editing in the AppSheet editor
https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Announcements/First-visual-editing-in-the-AppSheet-editor/m-...

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I have an app with lots of inline actions and, when I need to go back and re-edit or fix something, I’m often unable to remember the name I gave the action so I can find it quickly in the editor. Here’s a simple way to do that with line actions:

All I’m doing here is copying the text around the line action (it may be difficult to select only the action), pasting the text into a text editor, and then identifying the action name that got copied with the text.

I’m hoping that AppSheet will give us an easier way to identify actions in the editor. That should make this tip obsolete. Until then, I hope some of you find this to be useful.

This tip replaces the following one, which no longer works:

Now what was the name of that action . . .? Tips & Tricks 💡

If you have lots of actions in your app it can be hard to remember what you called each one. Here’s a little trick to get the name of an action so that you can find it more easily in the editor: [Action name] If you “drag” your action inside the browser like this, you should be able to see the name, or at least the first part of it. By the way, I hope that someday AppSheet will make it possible to download and/or search the text of all actions, expressions, etc. in a given app to help us fig…

[Kirk_Masden]

This tip is no longer relevant because the editor has improved: