I need to set up a mechanism whereby my user can select entries from a list (Bulk Select) and have the App generate a report based on the selection. The only way I can think of is create an action to write the Keys of the selected entries into a “spare” spreadsheet, then us that to filter the records for a report. Otherwise I think it would need to create one report for each selected item. Am I right or have I missed something?
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Multi-select cannot perform navigation actions, so (1) can’t be done from multi-select.
(2) can be done from multi-select.
(3) cannot be done from multi-select. There is no programmatic way to know that the action is being run as part of a multi-select, nor is there a way to perform an action only once for a multi-select (e.g., only once after all of the multi-select have been done).
To accomplish what you want, I’d suggest not using multi-select, and instead implement your own search feature that allows the user to choose the desired rows, capture them in a slice, then act on the slice.
You are right.
Thanks for the confirmation, however I suspect what I am hoping to achieve may still not be possible.
I need to do the following actions so I have created individual actions to perform each:
Each Action I’ve developed displays prominently when I enter Bulk Selection and works at the press of the respective icon.
However the Action I created to run the sequence of actions doesn’t display on my table View.
Is there a way to have this Run All Steps Action appear as an option when I activate Bulk Select?
Otherwise, how can I make it work without having the user press each of the 5 buttons in sequence?
Thinking further, I could add the records to the Bookmark sheet first then allow that to trigger a workflow to do the rest but I am unsure how AppSheet handles the interaction. Will it finish the Bulk Action (i.e. add multiple records) then trigger the Workflow, or will each addition trigger a separate run of the Workflow?
Multi-select cannot perform navigation actions, so (1) can’t be done from multi-select.
(2) can be done from multi-select.
(3) cannot be done from multi-select. There is no programmatic way to know that the action is being run as part of a multi-select, nor is there a way to perform an action only once for a multi-select (e.g., only once after all of the multi-select have been done).
To accomplish what you want, I’d suggest not using multi-select, and instead implement your own search feature that allows the user to choose the desired rows, capture them in a slice, then act on the slice.
Thanks for reinfocing Rafael
Thanks Steve. That’s what I’m in the process of doing but that has introduced a new set of problems that I have raised in another question. Because Actions are performed on the client side, and Workflows on the server side, I am fearful that my data integrity will be compromised. Hopefully there is a way.
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