With custom actions, can we trigger actions to all list items displayed in a page at once? Ben Haefele
Ben Haefele: How about now? And will it enable making api calls within it?
Ben Haefele: Where are you at on this? What sort of ideas to you have in the planned deliverable? Is it part of this feature or a feature on it’s own?
Michael Worthington: Yes, it will allow you to make api calls. Still looking at the same timeline
Ben Haefele: Perfect. Via the external collections, you are able to make API calls, but what is missing is the ability to add a query string based on form data or a property from from one of the collection records.
will we be able to feed the api data from existing collections?
Ben Haefele: I think this one should be marked as Completed.
Good job on the new Custom Actions!
Adalo, is slowly making great strides towards being a serious programming environment!
Do you have any idea how long until we can use data returned from an API call and have it exposed to the Adalo developer in variables?
Specifically, I need access to a returned authentication token and a refreshtoken to be able to use them in future operations (thru Magic Text), and also be able to use a timer to be able to call the refresh token action just before the first returned token expires.
Otherwise, it’s not possible to use APIs that return tokens that have to be included in every following operation after the authorization call.
This feature is completed as far as I see.
jack: how do you use it?
Sameer Khan: It is on paid plan. And on beta mode for now I guess.
jack: oh ok thanks!
We need Manage/Delete for Custom Actions as well. See: Manage and delete Custom Actions
Ben Haefele Are there any plans to handle multiple records from the response? See: Custom Data in API request? - #17 by karimoo
Or use of Magic Text for endpoints in external collections?
karimoo: Magic text for external collection set up is coming soon. Handling multiple records from a custom action response is on our radar, but we need to have support for actions that can create/update/delete multiple records first for that to have any value.
and order all list “stuff” from A->Z would be practical
(instead of..creation date???))
Ben Haefele: Any idea when acting on multiple records will be delivered? I was really looking forward to custom action outputs but ran into this. I call an API that returns a list of items tied to dates.
Sarah Williams: We’re definitely seeing a lot of requests for this. Could you provide some more info on what you would want to do with the returned items?
Ben Haefele: My plan is to add the resulting list of items (in this case events) into a collection and display them in a calendar.
Ben Haefele: I have an example I came across recently. I need to connect to an API where you input a UK Postcode and it will return a list of addresses.