I have a table with a date column along with a series of buttons that filter the date column for Today, Yesterday, -2 Days, -3 Days, -4 Days, -5 Days, -6 Days, etc.
Is there anyway I can add some form of visual indicator (change of button color? font color? badge?) to show which button is currently filtering the dates in the table? In other words, if the -2 Days button was the last button pushed, it gets some visual indicator until another button is pushed?
Many thanks, Gregg
Hey Gregg!
There are many different ways to do this, the best way just depends on how exactly your buttons are working.
What is your current action in your button? Is it modifying a ControlValue?
Yes!
To go back 4 days, I currently use this, but of course open to any suggestions to better ways to approach it:
SetControlValue([Hitlist Test Date.], List(
Today()-4,
Today()-4
))
Thank you!
Great! Then I would do this:
In the label portion of your button write:
If((today()-4).in(HitListTestDate), _color(ā#00000ā, āin Useā, ānot in useā))
Then, in the place of the 0ās put in the hex-value of the color you are after!
Then do the same for your other buttons but adjust the if criteria to make sure it matches the button action
Also- just personally Iād use all white buttons so the colored text stands out more clearly. Alternatively to the _color() formula you could also use _highlight()
or 
emojiButton()s with arbitrary icons like this:in a recent video of yours (de-duplicating video?) i am prety sure i saw a progress-bar show up in some of your buttons for a few momentsā¦ or was i seeing things?
can it be done?
max
No no, you got that right @Xyzor_Max 
!
So, yes it can be done as, apparently, itās an āold trickā from @Paul_Danyliuk 
!
I searched on the Community to find the āhowā but I wasnāt able to find a dedicated topic 
ā¦
(As I didnāt have the time to try and see if I could solve this riddle for myself 
)
Maybe this is what he was referring to?
Indeed it was a progress bar but I didnāt suggest it here because I didnāt see how that would work along what OP requested (highlighting a ācurrently activeā button in terms that itās not a long-running action but a yes/no state, i.e. indicating that āLast weekā was the last pressed number / the currently active setting).
I donāt mind making a quick tutorial on implementing a progress bar label sometime soon 
I thought it was pretty easy to solve without a tutorial for it.
ha @Paul_Danyliuk ā¦ you throw down a challenge methinks 
let me see if i can figure it out
tomorrow
im too tired in the brain right now
challenge accepted 
You guys are making my head explode!
Hey Greg! You can just write that into your āDisable Ifā criteria of the button
Essentially write: (today()-4).in(HitListTestDate)
And then shift around the today()-4 to match the action of your button
@Paul_Danyliuk, i tried.
here is a doc with the following tricks for showing the progress of a buttonā¦
but i cannot seem to change the label of the button while its running
so you must be using the āDeep Vodooā of the hidden _Button() function?
or have i missed something obvious?
anyway - you win! - challenge accepted but failed!
I fail to believe that youāre capable of making a JS interpreter in Coda but fail to notice that a buttonās label can be a formula 
Iāll try to record a proper tutorial about it and progress indication in general sometime soon. Maybe even today if I have time for it.
oh yes i noticed
it was the first thing i tried
but when i set the label via a formula, it didnt change in real time when the button was running!
or i had it disabled while running (stupid mistake)?
argh!
maybe its because the button is doing row inserts and deletes that have a long delay round-trip to the server?
ok
hangs head in sorrow
i will try again
max
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