Custom UI action for a button?

[isaacsouza (Isaac)]

Hey guys, Isaac here, I started hacking around with monday apps last sunday and just signed up to the forum.

I’m trying to figure out a way to implement a simple idea, which is to implement some sort of “custom action” when a user clicks on a button, but it is an action that does not use a server integration. I just need the button to do something on the UI only, no need to talk to a server.

Ex: I have a column called “term” that contains some arbitrary text, and another column called “search” that has a button, when the user click the button for a given row, the app would take the value in the “term” column and open a new tab with a google search for it.

Hope that makes sense, appreciate any help.

Isaac

[dvdsmpsn (David @ David Simpson Apps)]

Hi @isaacsouza, I don’t think that’s possible right now.

One way that this could be made to happen in the future would be with the feature I’ve requested here:

Background script app feature

A background script is a hidden html+js page that would be able to listen to context changes and any client-side events that happen to a board, item, workdoc or dashboard. It allows your app to execute its functionality without adding unnecessary UI elements to the page. I can see several use cases for such an app feature, so actively encourage this as a new feature.

Vote it up!

The button press could trigger an event that the background script would listen for, and then the background script could contain the logic to do whatever is required on the client side.

In your case:

1. read the board item
2. read the column in the board item
3. perform an openLinkInTab from monday.execute based on the content of the column

[isaacsouza (Isaac)]

Hey @dvdsmpsn thanks! Just upvoted your feature request.

Yeah, I didn’t think it was possible from what I saw in the docs.

Appreciate your help.