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Update the buttons in your app application with conditional formatting to give it them a more natural flow. To recap the steps in the video:

Add a Clear

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Button

  1. Add a new button to the Businesses dashboard.
    1. Right-click on the Business tab and go to Open Palette → Basic Components.
    2. Hold shift Shift and drag a new button on to onto the SimpleButtonHolder area.
  2. Configure In the new button, set:
    1. Name: ClearBusinessFields ClearBusinessFields
    2. Action Type: Clear  Clear All Fields
    3. Order: 4
    4. Button Label: New New

Go into App Mode and try the new button. You will see that it clears the values from all fields on the form. Therefore, this This is a useful button to press click before entering details for a new contactentry.

Using Conditional Formatting

Now we will hide a button the buttons that users do not need to see when they are entering details for a new contactdata.

We will hide the Update button can hide the Delete and Update buttons when the details on the screen are blank. To do this, we can test the value of UIDof UID. Remember that the UID field the UID field is configured on the edit screen , and is hidden - but this means we can use the value of UIDof UID. We know that UID is that UID is always set for every record, so we can test whether this is null or not to work out whether the fields on the edit form are currently populated. Remember also that to access a value on the edit form in an expression we can use _form.

  1. To conditionally hide the Delete buttonthe Delete button:
    1. Click on the Update button the Delete button to open the configuration detailsform.
    2. Go to the section Formatting Rules.
    3. Add a formatting rule.
    4. Set the Rule Expression to _form.UID == _NULL
    5. Since there is currently no hidden style, we will add one:.
      • Next to Styleto Style, press click +
      • Set Name to Hidden
      • Click the Hidden flag and set:
        • Name: Hidden
        • Hidden flag: tick
      • Save the new style.
    6. In the formatting rule, set the Style to Hidden to Hidden.
    7. Save the formatting rule.
  2. Apply the same settings to the Update button.
  3. Apply the same settings to the New button.
  4. Now update the Add button the Add button so that it is not shown when the user is updating a record, that is, when the UID field the UID field is set:.
    1. Open the configuration details for the Add buttonform for the Add button.
    2. Set the Add a formatting ruleFormatting Rule and set:
      • Rule Expression
       to 
      • _form.UID ! =
      =
      •  _NULL
      set the 
      • Style
       to Hidden
      • Hidden
    3. Save the formatting rule.

Go into App Mode. Click New, and check that when you press New, :

  • all fields are cleared
  • the Update,

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  • Delete and

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  • New buttons disappear
  • the Add button is shown.

Also check that when you select a record, the New and Add buttonsare the Add button is not displayed but the Updatebutton is shown. Anchor_GoBack_GoBack.

You can also apply this conditional formatting for buttons to the Contacts dashboard and your templates.



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