@arkimark when you turn on automatic list refresh, the list sends the request to Adalo backend every ~1 second to fetch new data.
Along with this data from some other screen components could be reloaded. As a result the content of the screen is refreshed. There are no defined rules how this works (and sometimes it doesn’t), it is an empirical knowledge.
Your question is similar to what has been discussed here Same time click problem/ Only 1 user per task.
In your case you can “wrap” the button with the action into a single-item list (of data record in question) and make it autorefreshing.
Adalo does not have a directive to refresh the screen so you need to find workarounds.
Best,
Victor.