Action Button

This article explains the Action Button block that can be added to design an app.

This button allows end-users to navigate to other Clappia apps within the workplace. It can navigate to the other app’s Home page, Submissions tab, and Analytics tab. The button can also be used to navigate to external sites.

Editing the Block

In the Design App tab, click on Add Field and select the Action Block. Start editing on the panel that appears on the right side.

Label

This is what appears as the name of the action button to the end-user.

Description

This is the text that goes below the action button to help the user with some information, or it could be left blank.

Action on Click

This is used to decide whether the button will navigate to another Clappia app within the workplace or to an external site.

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Open Clappia App

If ‘Open Clappia App’ is selected, additional fields for configuration appears:

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Select an App

Here you can select an app available in the workplace, where the action button will navigate the user to upon being clicked.

View Type

Once an app is selected, this field will appear. Select the tabs within the selected app for the user to be navigated to. The user can be navigated to the selected app’s Home page, Submissions tab, or Analytics tab.

Note:

1. Make sure that the analytics tab is configured for the navigated app, if ‘Analytics’ is selected as the view type. Click here to know how to configure live dashboards.
2. The users will only be able to navigate to the other app’s tabs (based on view type) if they have been given the appropriate permissions.

Selecting ‘Home’ as the view type:

Navigate To

This allows the user to be navigated to a certain field, section, or page (if page breaks are inserted in that app) within the app they are navigated to.

Select ‘Page’ if you want the user to be navigated to the beginning of an app or to a certain page within that app. If there are no multiple pages for an app, simply select ‘Page 1’ for the Navigate to page field that appears at the bottom of the Navigate to field.

Similarly you will get a ‘Navigate to field’ or ‘Navigate to section’ field if the ‘Navigate to’ is configured as field or section respectively.

Open Link

This is to redirect a user to external sites.

If ‘Open Link’ is selected in Action on Click field, the additional field for configuration appears:

Redirect URL

Add the website link to redirect the user.

Advanced Options

Button Placement

Select where the button is to be aligned.

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Display this field if

Use this if you want to show or hide the action button under certain conditions. It accepts the standard Clappia Formulae, similar to conditional sections.

1. You can type ‘@’ to get a list of all the variables in the app and select variables.
2. Using these variables you can write Excel-like formulae.

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