How do i make a home screen with images taking the user to the chosen view?

[Tiger1]

I have an app where i want to add a “Home Screen”. I want that to be an initial screen that allows the user to click on a photo/image to take them to the correct view:

I have this in my app - but it doesnt take them where i want them to go. Those two images are in a table. They currently do not take the user to the correct views. How do i do this?

[Marc_Dillon]

[Tiger1]

Do i need to create a table holding the images? then reference those?

[Marc_Dillon]

Tiger:

Do i need to create a table holding the images?

Isn’t that what you already have?

Tiger:

then reference those?

Don’t know what this means.

Check out this help article as well.

help.appsheet.com

Create App Launchers or Launch Apps and URLS from AppSheet Apps

How to make app launchers and launch apps from apps.

And sample app:
https://www.appsheet.com/samples/An-app-launcher-for-other-AppSheet-apps

And general searches in google and here for “custom menu” “menu launcher”, etc

[Tiger1]

This is my image table:

This is the columns i used to reference those images from my MAIN table:

Problem:
When i build the “Home Screen” - i have to use the “image Table” - which goes no where when the user clicks on the images.

I looked at the app launcher link you sent already before i tried - i am not understanding where I reference and how to reference these images - so that the user clicks on them and they goto the table I want.

[Marc_Dillon]

Tiger:

which goes no where when the user clicks on the images.

You can create a LINKTOVIEW() action, then set it as the Row Selected Behavior as shown in my initial post.

[Tiger1]

Worked PERFECTLY! Thanks again as always!

[Tiger1]

Ok. Only problem i am having is I have two images. Do i make two tables? If so, Ho do I pout them in the same Gallery? Because i have more than one image - the behavior will only goto to ONE view. What about the other?

[Tiger1]

Well I made a dashboard and it seems to work great. Thanks again

[Marc_Dillon · Accepted solution]

Tiger:

Because i have more than one image - the behavior will only goto to ONE view. What about the other?

You need to make your LINKTOVIEW action dynamic depending on the image record selected. Probably start by adding a new column to your images table: [View Name]. Put the exact UX-View name that you want navigated to from that image into the new column for that row. Then change your expression to:

LINKTOVIEW( [View Name] )

[Tiger1]

What “type” do i make that new column?

[Tiger1]

Is that right?

[Tiger1]

nm. I’m stupid. I figured out what you meant…

Thanks

[Clint_G]

Please help others by posting what your solution was. Most helpful. Thanks.

[Tiger1]

Yes,
So I was looking to have a home screen with images for my users. I wanted them to be able to click on an image and the app would take them to a certain “View”.

Home Screen - user clicks on “MAP”:

MAP View:

To build this I had to first create a table telling the app what to do when the user clicks on the image/button:

Leave the column “View Name” - empty.

Then in the app I add that table:

Now build your first “Home Screen” view:

NOTICE - the “on Click” option ? There is where you MUST create./build your actions - so when the user clicks on a certain image it will take them to THAT view:

Each of these are views I also had to build to make the app have a view to go to for the user selection:

And that is it!

Does it make sense?

[Markus_Malessa]

I would also be interested in how to get this accomplished. More specifically I would be interested how to get this accomplished without needing a Table at the backend. It seems that most everything I need to accomplish somehow requires another column in a table or an entire table. By the time I’m done I feel like I have a dozen additional resources to manage.

[Steve]

Markus_Malessa:

More specifically I would be interested how to get this accomplished without needing a Table at the backend.

Not possible.

[Tiger1]

Steve,
Do i create/build my image table, then reference those images?

[Aurelien]

Hi all,

Thank you @Tiger for sharing your solution

An additional solution: a few months ago I found this sample app as well, that does the exact same thing as you describe, but without the action to build as it’s generated with a virtual column expression:
https://www.appsheet.com/samples/Schedule-retail-order-pickup-and-customer-interactions?appGuidStrin...

The main difference is here:

With this expression in the virtual column formula:
"#view="&[View Name]

and view layout is:

Hope that may help !