Is it possible to have a button in a grid? And can we display text in a grid column instead of the

Two similar questions:

1) Is it possible to have a button in a grid?

I'm not seeing a way to have a button in a grid. But I wanted to check before I give up on the idea.

We have an Item master that has a column that contains the URL to the item on the vendors website. I would like for the user to be able to click on a button and then open the item on the vendors website.

2) Is it possible to display text in grid column instead of the grid column value?

In the grid, I can set the column to be a hyperlink. And set an event for the field to execute the GOTO URL event. One trouble with that is that the URL is long. So it takes up a lot of space. Is there a way to display text in the grid column instead of the value of a field? So the grid would show "View", but the grid column value is the URL field. When the user clicked on "View", the event would use the field value in the GOTO URL.

Thanks for your help.

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Stephen Cena

I don't know about the button, but I might have a suggestion for the text. Display the text you want in the field, but then have another hidden field that contains the actual URL. When the event is triggered, have it use the actual URL value in the grid.

Caitlin Porter

I like Stephen's idea above, probably what I would do. Unfortunately no, grids do not support buttons at this time.

tdickens

How do I get the grid to show a text field?

I tried setting the Binding Type to None. And set the Default Value to Show.

I also created a variable and set the Binding Type to Variable.

But both ways give me a blank field on the grid.

When I click on the blank field then my event fires to GOTO URL. So this is a great idea once I figure out how to get text to show up in the grid.

Thanks for your help.

Stephen Cena

If I remember correctly, grids can only function off of a Collection (Primary, Secondary, etc). In one case, I had to create a derived field for the text I wanted to display in place of the actual text.

antonio-caria

Yes it possible

change HTML column and put the HTML code You need.

Caitlin Porter

How do you change it to an HTML column? I don't see this as an option in my environment.

antonio-caria

If the column grid allows HTML You can put any HTML inside it.

Caitlin Porter

Can you explain this a little further? How does a column accept and interpret HTML?

Legacy Contributor

You cannot place a button in a grid, but you can set the column to a hyperlink that calls an event and then you can trigger an action based on that record. This can be set in the Misc section of the property sheet.

Caitlin Porter

Is this in a standard mongoose grid?

antonio-caria

You can put the button but not in standard process....

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