Hi there, does anybody know how to make the first cell of a repeating group a button? I’ve seen this question has been asked before but it wasn’t resolved
Hi there, @ssss10331… if I understand your post correctly, you could put a button in the repeating group, make the button not visible on page load, and add a condition to the button that makes it visible when the current cell’s index is 1. This suggestion probably isn’t exactly what you are trying to describe, but it is the way you need to go if you really want to put a button in a repeating group and have the button only appear in the first row.
Best…
Mike
You can’t ‘make a repeating group cell a button’ (that doesn’t make sense)… but you can certainly add a button into a repeating group cell…
Just remember that, by definition, whatever elements you add into a repeating group cell, they will be added to every cell in the repeating group…
So, if you only want the button to appear in a particular cell (or cells), you’ll need to add some conditional formatting to the button so that it is only visible when it’s inside the particular cell’s you want it to be visible in.
Hi Mike, thank you for your response. Would that hide the first element of the group when it’s added (i.e., a picture)?
Yup, I would have bet my car that’s what you were trying to do. 
To answer your question, yes, if you make the repeating group display a button in the first row, then it’s going to do exactly that (i.e., display a button instead of the first thing the repeating group is displaying). There are hacky ways to get around it, but you might be better off building an interface that doesn’t require the repeating group to contain the button.
Yea it would be hacky like @mikeloc said but you could do:
Put the + button there like you want (outside the repeating group), put a group representing the 1st item in the list (also outside the repeating group) but the data source is your search but only :first item, then the repeating group show the search :from item#2
So you are manually placing the button, manually placing the first item, then letting the repeating group show the rest. But this would be a little odd if your repeating group went to 3 columns instead because now your manually places elements won’t line up…
EDIT: don’t do what I said it’s too much work
Thank you for all your responses , guys. After this, I think a floating button would also do just fine 
If it helps, the “easiest” hack I can think of is to have the first thing/row in the data type that is the repeating group’s data source be a blank thing/row. Then, have the data source for the repeating group be a search for the first item in the data type (converted to a list) merged with a search for the things you want the repeating group to show. With this hack, showing a button in the first row of the repeating group won’t hide the first real thing you want the repeating group to show.