Repeater Card States

#1

Hello, I’m having difficulty figuring out how I can create states of the Repeater Card. I am making a filtered list w/ repeater cards. State 1 has a checkbox that is checked. State 2 would have an unchecked checkbox and also an input field. I am assuming I am missing something or not doing it right, but would greatly appreciate any guidance. Thank you.

#2

If you want to share an example file or some more details of what exactly you’re trying to do, I can probably give you more specific information (reply in here or send me a msg) but here are some general tips on manipulating Repeater items based on Repeater Data. Here’s some random tips in no particular order:

  • repeaters are repeaters, there’s no technical distinction between “Repeater - Table” and “Repeater - Card” the only difference is in appearance
  • you can also create a repeater by selecting shapes, right-click, Create Repeater (note: this will also create a column for every shape and link the column to the shape, this might not be what you want so you may have to remove some columns)
  • when you’re interacting with repeaters, ensure that your interactions edit the repeater’s row data instead of manipulating the objects directly, this is because if/when that repeater item is redrawn (such as if you add or remove a repeater row), those state changes will be lost
  • checkboxes are a good example of this, if you have one item in the repeater, and you check a checkbox inside it, when you add another item, that first item will be redrawn from scratch, if it’s unchecked by default it will be unchecked again when redrawn
  • instead have multiple actions in the On Item Load interaction on your repeater based on row data. I often have a “Checked” column, if that column has a value of “1” or “y” or “checked” then I have it check the checkbox
  • when I click a checkbox, I have a Selected interaction on that value edit the row data for that column to my chosen “checked” value.
  • you can have multiple On Item Load interactions based on any number of different columns for a single repeater

I have prepared a little 3 page demo (https://aapzmw.axshare.com/?g=1) to explain this concept and give some more examples and ideas. Feel free to ask me any questions.

My rp file is too big for the forum, so i put it on my gdrive