I’m sure that this little technique of mine is frowned upon by AppSheet. I don’t think it’s part of Google’s “material design” concept for apps. Still, I wanted to make a hierarchical outline like this:
In this case, I think the outline structure is easier to understand than a plain list.
So, how is it done? With spaces . . . I know, I know . . . not exactly rocket science. But, there is a trick to it just the same. Ordinarily, AppSheet would ignore spaces at the beginning of a line. So, I had to trick the platform into doing my bidding. Here’s how I did it:
That’s it. By the way, with an outline like this, a show/hide toggle might come in handy:
It would also be nice if we could control the spacing between lines.
Thank you @Kirk_Masden for this tip. I like it.
Indent is possible also with “Dummy” Format Rules.
It does not matter what kind of icon you use, but the highlight color has to be transparent.
Thanks! That’s interesting. Your method is easier than mine. But, perhaps it’s hard to control the size of the indent with your method. Is that right? Is there a way to control how far in you indent?
You see that [Phone] is more indent, because both dummy format rules apply. For [Customer] only one format rule applies. So that’s the only way how to control it: The number of dummy format rules.