How to create "Next page" buttons

[Lucie_Le_Naour]

Hi,
I want to insert buttons that send you to the next page in a playbook I am working on in Coda. Is there any better way to do it than by copy-pasting the URL of the page?

Anyone knows also if the URLs are automatically updated in the buttons when the website is published?

[Pch]

Hi @Lucie_Le_Naour and Welcome to the Community !

Well, sadly there’s no thisPage we can reference/get the url from so, not really …

But, you could create a “navigation” page with:

• A canvas formula storing the Doc URL using something like :

  thisDocument.ObjectLink().ToText()
  

• And a table where you store the @ref of each page you want to open with a canvas button.

  • From the @ref of the pages you can then get the Page ID (the one used in a page url) using :

    thisRow.Page.ToText()
    

  • And then you can re-create the full url of a page and use it in an OpenWindow() button

• Your canvas buttons can then push the appropriate button to open a page

See the sample below …

The Doc Explorer Pack might also help you with this

And these 2 topics could give you some inspiration too …

Navigation Buttons

I created my own little navigation buttons to use to reproduce across multiple pages of a doc. [image] [image] Check out the doc here to see how I created these. Navigation Buttons

Tips : a Dynamic syncblock-like Navigation Bar for your document across pages!

Hi community ! Here is a little to trick (Kudo to @Aurelie_Pureur1 also for finalizing the deployement of this idea! ) to create a dynamic navigation bar, using wonderful @Scott_Collier-Weir 's pack Doc Explorer. Dont be afraid, if you dont have a team plan, you can also do it by hand without any pack ! The idea is to get the list of pages of your document. Create a button to open a window with url equal to browser link (or enter manually the url of your page) [image] Button…

As for this …

@Lucie_Le_Naour

Anyone knows also if the URLs are automatically updated in the buttons when the website is published?

… I think that instead of using the Doc “internal” url, so the one returned by:

thisDocument.ObjectLink().ToText()

Which outputs something looking like :

https://coda.io/d/_dDoc_ID

You would need to use the published doc URL

https://coda.io/@username/doc-title

… and probably use the published Page IDs (which Coda creates automatically) in the navigation table … or just the full URL of each published page you want to open with your buttons.

But I don’t think the url are automatically updated though … Hence why using a table might be a plus (as you would just need to update each URL once instead of modifying each buttons )

I hope this helps …

[Lucie_Le_Naour]

Thank you for your help @Pch

[Pch]

My pleasure @Lucie_Le_Naour !