April Interface Designer Updates

My understanding is that currently a button element can only directly update values for the current record, not linked records.

In order to affect a linked record, you could have one of the data changes trigger an automation that affects the linked record. Or have the data change be looked up (or rolled up) to the linked record, and then have the rolled up value trigger the automation.

But these are all multi-step systems.

Amazing functionality! With it we can also trigger automations and scripts.

Happy to see the work being done and reading through the issues and hot fixes with the button elements is informative.

I want to point out another feature that seems to have been lost in the update, and that is opening the lookup card of a linked record from the grey box in a grid element (see pic.), this is now static. I don’t think this is an ‘editable’ vs ‘not editable’ issue, because the grid element never had that parameter, they are always editable.

Finally made time to check the new Button feature on my log parser Interface.

A few thoughts;

• The button name and the appearance text look linked - which seems redundant to have both.
• I can’t find a method to remove the lightning bolt. Interface authors may use Emoji icons if they’d like icons in their buttons.
• The colours are handy, but unfortunately not state based (ie, once a button is clicked, it can’t remain toggled off).
• There aren’t any other interesting button workflows to test, such as “Copy Field Text” (which is what I’m personally waiting for. One of my interfaces returns a base64 string, and I just want to be able to click a button and have that text in my clipboard to paste elsewhere. )

General improvements I’d like to see;

• Ability to add more colours to interface regions. A variety of varying Colours tied to rows would be great, but really we also need colour to differentiate regions of the interface itself, both columns, rows, individual cells etc.
• Colour rules based either off the base, or granular colour rules at the interface level.
• When I’m clicking through different records, I want to see the interface change colours accordingly with each record and applying colour rules.
• Tighter control of whitespace would be appreciated.
• The ability to link an Interface grid to a views properties. At the moment, users can only copy view properties, which means if the view updates within the Base then the interface still operates off of the previous view settings used when originally copied. I see both copy view properties and linking view properties useful in their own right, so would love to see both options.

Edit:
Further to my last post, I have been getting this disconnection error a few times a day lately.

EDIT 2: Anyone else having Filters fail to filter their Interface? Mine are simply failing to do anything. :thinking: Oh wait, re-editing my Interface, I see that “Connections” to elements are a thing… have they always been a thing? I don’t remember setting them up… anyway, I am liking what I see! How cool! Working again :blush:

way too much white, some options for a coloured top nav bar would be nice