Non-Collaborative Select Control

[Michael_Hewitt]

I am using a select control as user input for a button action. Unfortunately, when one user changes the select, other users see the update, so if two people wish to provide different inputs, they can interfere with each other. This is because the select control is “collaborative” - changes by one user are shared with all users.

Is there a common pattern for isolating users from each other when changing values on a select control? For example, I could imagine a column of select controls filtered by user, such that each user has their own control, but this would require creating a select control row for each user the first time they come into the document (such a “first-time” hook is under consideration).

Thanks!

[Paul_Danyliuk]

There’s been talk about adding a toggle to every canvas control that would make it user-specific.

It’s not implemented yet, so until that’s done you can use this approach:

[Video] User-specific filters (each person tweaks controls independently)

Yet another question that has been asked and answered so many times: How do I let multiple people use the doc at the same time and change filters just for themselves? Time to have the ultimate answer in one place. I recorded the video explaining how to do that using a helper table. I call this approach the Flows Table pattern. [Coda trick: User-specific filters] TL;DR: Create a table where each row is linked to each Coda user. Set up its columns to act as controls (checkboxes,…

P.S. Yes, that’s exactly what you described