Creating a floating group menus in a repeating group to edit a current cells contents

fradethornes96 · 2024-08-05T12:19:46.568Z

I wanted to add a group focus menu to a repeating group. This was to create the common functionality of having three dots on a list of things that opens a group focus with options such as delete, rename etc,
Something like this

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However, it was impossible to add a group focus, so I turned the dots icon into a reusable element and added the group focus to the reusable element as well.
This worked but implementing workflows to edit or rename has been impossible.
Does anyone have an idea how this can be achieved WITHOUT USING POPUPS instead of the group focus menu?
Thanks

bonjour_17 · 2024-08-05T12:56:36.406Z

fradethornes96:

implementing workflows to edit or rename has been impossible

why is that?

adamhholmes · 2024-08-05T13:21:30.388Z

fradethornes96:

This worked but implementing workflows to edit or rename has been impossible.

Yeah… this should be simple…

What issues have you run into with this?

fradethornes96 · 2024-08-05T14:07:42.815Z

Sorry for the confusion, let me clarify:
The focus group has buttons with text; edit, rename, delete. (Refer to the attached image) But this group focus is in the reusable element with the three dots icon.
Inside the editor for the reusable element, I would like to trigger a workflow when the buttons inside the focus group are clicked to edit, rename or delete whatever will be in the repeating groups current cell, where the reusable element is place.

For example; consider a page with repeating group containing a list of users, I could place a the reusable element in the repeating group. If say, one of the buttons in the reusable element is ‘rename’, and is clicked to change a user’s name, I would want a workflow to run when the button is clicked, to maybe display the user’s name in a pop-up so that I can change it.
The challenge I am facing is that I would need to add the workflow on this page with the repeating group. But this is not possible as you cannot access the reusable element’s elements on this page (the page with the repeating group of users.) You can only access them within the reusable element’s page.

Now as I am thinking about it, a workaround would be adding the popup to the reusable element itself instead of the page.
My use case is however different, I wanted to use a floating group instead of a popup, but adding the floating group to the reusable element does not work. (It does not display the floating group on the correct position that I would want on this page that is NOT the reusable element’s page) I will just probably change the UI and use a pop-up

In summary, how do you trigger a workflow from clicking an element inside a reusable element on a different page, not the reusable element’s page, to for example display a hidden element?

ihsanzainal84 · 2024-08-06T05:57:03.893Z

A reusable element cannot trigger another reusable element’s workflow.

You can only trigger an RE’s workflow from the page it is in.

You could use URL parameters to store values and then run a RE workflow that takes that URL value.

You could change how you are building your elements.

You can also use Toolbox’s features to run workflows as Javascript functions.

Also you marked your post as solved.

system · 2024-10-14T12:20:06.540Z

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