Field by field edition

[cedric.roux]

Hello,

Rather than making a page to display the 10 fields of a data type in my DB (first name, last name, email, linkedin, etc.), and doing a popup for the create / update, I would like to understand how to do everything in the same page, with “edit” icons next to each field, which makes the field editable and displays icons validate / cancel the editing time. Using only text inputs, changing the style when we are not editing so that it looks like a normal text field, and making it non-editable by default - that works well. A workflow that changes a custom state when you click on the edit icon and voila

Except that I have to do this 10 or 15 times. And create 10 or 15 custom states, 10 or 15 times almost the same workflow etc - it finally seems quite heavy (compared to a popup). In reality I would like to create a group that can take as input a variable name and a data source (for example variable = email and data source = current page User), and that it does what it takes for everything the rest with a typical workflow (and not copy / paste, updating the variable to be updated in the make change to thing etc.). I thought to myself that the name of the variable in question could be stored in a custom state variableName of the group (and therefore finally add a variable with this process, it would just be a copy / paste from this group or reusable element and update the name of the variable in the custom state of this group) - but when for example I put a dynamic data “current page’s users’ XXX”, I can’t put XXX = this group’s variableName.

=> to summarize How to dynamically choose the field to update during a make changes to thing?
Thanks!

[boston85719]

@cedric.roux

I would like to understand how to do everything in the same page, with “edit” icons next to each field, which makes the field editable and displays icons validate / cancel the editing time.

Put an input element on the page…style it so it looks like plain text and check the input is disabled

Then next to it put the edit icon and workflow for when it is clicked to change a custom state on any element you want and make a conditional on the input element that when met, will change the style to look like an input, will also make it enabled

@cedric.roux

How to dynamically choose the field to update during a make changes to thing?

You can not dynamically choose the field to update because the field choice is not dynamic…you could set conditionals and create even more development work to have a conditional for each workflow update action to determine which field to update.