Quick add to a table from a lookup - a conundrum!

[James_Eades]

Hey Brendan!

I think your best friend in this situation would be a button to “Add Contact” which is linked to an expanded modal of your contacts table. You can even create a different view for adding a contact from a project than you might have on your regular contact page/table.

Here are some useful resources:

Pop open a row with a button

Thanks @justin. So much easier than the URL concatenate workaround! Question: I keep having the issue of the view closing when I click “x” to close the annoying “no action taken” dialog box that pops up with the view of the row. Any ideas on 1) how to prevent the dialog box “no action taken” from appearing to begin with (it doesn’t appear when using Coda’s innate expand row functionality) or 2) how to prevent the expanded row from closing after X’ing “no action taken”. Thanks …

Mega trick: Different "Expand row" layouts for the same row

Most likely you’re familiar with “Expand row” feature that lets you see a popup for a row by clicking here: [image] [image] And perhaps you know the action Activate() to open that popup programmatically with a button, or at least used the “Add new row and open for editing” checkbox. And also you may know that you can configure row details popup layout just like you can edit the layout in Detail view: [image] What you may not know though is that you can configure this popup’s layout indi…

@Paul_Danyliuk Providing useful tips as usual. Although I personally had issues with UID so I used a different method that still relied on Row ID:

RunActions(AddRow([TABLE], [COLUMN],"value"),_Noop()._Delay(0),OpenWindow(concat("https://coda.io/d/thereallylongurlcodaprovidesfortheview/r",[Table].RowId.Last(),"&modal=true")))

In the above formula I added a row to a table and set a checkbox value to true - then the formula waited a bit because of the _Noop()._Delay(0) then I used OpenWindow() with the link to the specific view I wanted and used the RowID of the latest item.

A bit of a hack in this example with the delay, but it worked well enough for my specific circumstances.

Hope this helps!